Independent Kenya since 1963
(see also Kenya)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Buchanan, Keith. "The gun & the school: reflections on Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Decolonising the Mind," Race & Class ? (10-12/88).
Dixon, David N. "Press law debate in Kenya: ethics as political power," Journal of Mass Media Ethics 12,2 (1997):171-83.
Hyden, Goran. "AIDS, policy & politics: East Africa in comparative perspective," Policy Studies Review 12,1-2 (spr-sum 93).
Straube, Krystal. "Kenya: environmental heroine or ‘traitor’," in Human Rights Watch/Natural Resources Defense Council, Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights & the Environment (NY, 1992), pp. 39-44. Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai & the Green Belt Movement.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Adamson, J. The Peoples of Kenya (London, 1967).
Bennett, George & Carl G. Rosenberg. The Kenyatta Election: Kenya, 1960-61 (London: Oxford, 1961).
Bernard, F.E. East of Mt. Kenya: Meru Agriculture in Transition (Munich: Weltforum, 1972).
Hansen, Holger Bernt & Michael Twaddle (eds.) Religion & Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence (London: James Currey, 1995).
Hyden, Goran; Robert Jackson & John Okumu (eds.) Development Administration: The Kenyan Experience (Nairobi: Oxford, 1970).
__________. Agriculture & Development in Africa: The Case of Kenya (Indianapolis: Universities Field Staff, 1987).
Kennedy, Dane K. Islands of White: Settler Society & Culture in Kenya & Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (Durham NC: Duke, 1987).
Kenyatta, Jomo. Harambee! The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 (NY: Oxford, 1964).
Ndegwa, Stephen N. The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs & Politics in Africa (West Hartford CT: Kumarian, 1996).
Ochieng, W.R. & B.A. Ogot. The Decolonization & Independence of Kenya, 1940-1993 (London: James Currey, 1995).
Schatzberg, Michael G. The Political Economy of Kenya (NY: Praeger, 1987).
Throup, David W. & Charles Hornsby. Multi-Party Politics in Kenya: The Kenyatta & Moi States & the Triumph of the System in the 1992 Election (Athens: Ohio U., 1998).