Majimbo in Kenya's Past: Federalism in the 1940s and 1950s.

9781604979831

Majimbo in Kenya's Past: Federalism in the 1940s and 1950s

Robert M. Maxon

Cambria Press

2017

208 pages

$104.99

Hardcover

Cambria African Studies Series

KSK2035

Continuing his study of constitutions and constitution making in late colonial Kenya, Maxon focuses on majimbo, a federal system of government, during the 1940s and 1950s. He analyzes schemes, movers, and motives and provides detailed accounts of several specific incidents that were important in the evolution of federalism but have not featured prominently in any published account of the period. He covers federalism and colonial Kenya, federal schemes during the 1940s, provincial autonomy and white supremacy 1950-56, new approaches for federalism 1957-60, and federalism at a dead end. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)