Kenya's Independence Constitution : Constitution-Making and End of Empire.

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Author / Creator:Maxon, Robert M.
Imprint:Lanham : Fairleigh Dickinson, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (361 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404224
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ISBN:9781611470536
1611470536
9781611470529
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Kenya's Independence Constitution, by Robert M. Maxon, details the evolution of Kenya's constitution during the final stage of decolonization. Starting with the close of the first Lancaster House conference of 1960, Maxon illuminates the many influences that shaped Kenya's constitution-making. It concludes in 1963, coinciding with the end of empire, when political ethnicity dominated discourse. While the self-government constitution provided for majimbo, or federal constitution, the winning party in the 1963 elections changed the constitution such that federalism's life expectancy was brief.
Other form:Print version: Maxon, Robert M. Kenya's Independence Constitution : Constitution-Making and End of Empire. Lanham : Fairleigh Dickinson, ©2011 9781611470529