Seeing like a citizen: decolonization, development, and the making of Kenya, 1945-1980

In: New African histories

Abstract

Introduction -- "Can I Be One of Them?" The Landscapes of Settlement in Decolonizing Kenya -- "We Must Return to the Land that We Love": Local Accounts and Life Histories in Three Settlement Schemes -- "The Land Was Ours But It Was Not Mine": Land Marginalization and the Political Imagination -- "If I Was Evicted Where Could I Go?" Cooperative Development and Contestations over Economic Citizenship -- "A Hungry Nation Cannot Be Contented": The Political Economy of Famine -- "Those Poor People Who Sweated Themselves to Help Themselves": Self-Help and the Contradictions of Citizenship and Development -- "Are You Planting Trees or Are You Planting People?" Local Resistance, International Development, and the Making of Kenya -- Conclusion.