To the Test of Social and Political Violence: From the Kenya of Millionaires and Millions of Beggars to the Three Kenyas of the Twenty-First Century
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8 juin 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.africae.2410
- isbn: 9782957305896
- eisbn: 9782957305889
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Christian Thibon, « To the Test of Social and Political Violence: From the Kenya of Millionaires and Millions of Beggars to the Three Kenyas of the Twenty-First Century », Africae, ID : 10.4000/books.africae.2410
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“The eyes of a starving child,” “Kenya has become a nation of ten millionaires and ten million beggars”: these lines from Josiah Mwangi Kariuki’s most often-quoted speeches are fitting anecdotal hooks to begin this chapter. Such critical views concern two historical periods: firstly in 1962 when Kenya was assessing its colonial era, and then at the beginning of the 1970s during the first decade of independence with its many people “left out in the cold,” that is, beggars as well as reliant vu...