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Abstract:
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This book offers a synthetic grasp and particular visions of Kenya in this first quarter of the twenty-first century. It brings together rigorous and accessible contributions to show how, since the alternation of 2002, Kenya has been striving to change through economic modernization and political liberalization. The transformations announced are taking place, even if the legacies of the past and political habitus slow down their progress. The different chapters take us from Kenyan developmental capitalism to extreme poverty and perennial inequalities, from reforms on paper to half-hearted implementations in multiple sectors: decentralized governance, natural resources, land, education. The ancient and colonial history, the diversity of the population in Kenya allow us to better understand the political, religious and communal cleavages, the asymmetries between cities and the countryside, between Nairobi and the coast, in a Kenya open to the world, as much by trade and finance as by the networks of art.
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