Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52

Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52
ISBN-10
0821413996
ISBN-13
9780821413999
Category
Kenya
Pages
393
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Author
Joanna Lewis

Description

This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change. It asks four questions: - Why was Kenya's welfare operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with that of other British colonies? - Why did a transformation from social welfare to community development produce further neglect of the very poor? - Why was there no equivalent to the French tradition of community medicine? - If there was a transformatory element of colonial rule that sought to address poverty, where and why did it fall down? The answers offer revealing insight into the dynamics of rule in the late colonial period in Kenya.

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