Kenyatta and Britain An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963 /

• Main Author: Maloba, W. O. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Africa-Politics and government.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; African Politics.
• Physical Description: XI, 295 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319508955
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50895-5

This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta's formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British intelligence services and Kenyatta's career and the political compromise he forged between Kenya and Britain. This book draws on primary sources to analyze this compromise, which marked his transformation from "leader to darkness and death" to the most beloved post-colonial African leader in the West. .