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Kenya Today : Challenges in Post-Colonial Africa.
Title:
Kenya Today : Challenges in Post-Colonial Africa.
Author:
Mwaura, Ndirangu.
ISBN:
9780875863214
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Factors Hindering Development -- Chapter 1. Neocolonialism -- Chapter 2. Foreign Investment -- Chapter 3. Liberalization -- Chapter 4. Lack of Leadership -- Sedar Senghor -- Mobutu Sese Seko -- Jomo Kenyatta -- "Democracy" versus Traditional Structures -- Others -- Chapter 5. Lack of Capital -- False Economic Theories -- Loans and Aid -- "Aid" -- The Repercussions of Aid -- The Solution -- Chapter 6. Underpopulation -- International Policy on African Population -- Family Planning -- Diseases -- Reducing Food Availability -- Tainted Water and Food Supplies -- Poverty -- Population and Economy -- Urbanization and Economic Development -- Chapter 7. Characteristics and Consequences of Underdevelopment -- Political and Military Weakness -- Economic Weakness -- Mass Poverty -- Tribalism -- Chapter 8. Possible Solutions to the Economic Dilemma in Africa -- Ideologies -- Chapter 9. The International Community and Africa -- Part Two: How Neocolonialism Is Sustained -- Introduction: Sustaining Neocolonialism -- Chapter 10. Religion -- How the European "Christian" Church Entrenches Neocolonialism -- Church Structure -- Christmas -- Easter -- Valentine's Day -- Worship Aids -- Religious Follies -- Chapter 11. Education -- The Education System -- Language -- Education Content -- Books -- Educating African Students Directly -- Consequences of Neocolonial Education -- Possible Reforms -- Chapter 12. Cultural Imperialism -- Television as a Conduit of Cultural Imperialism -- Radio as a Conduit for Cultural Imperialism -- The Cinema as a Conduit for Cultural Imperialism -- The Family -- Hotels -- Classic Western Culture -- The Settler Problem -- Consequences of Cultural Imperialism -- Misinformation -- Chapter 13. Military and Political Threats -- Introduction -- Civil Wars -- Assassinations.

Economic Destabilization -- The UN as an Arm of Imperialism and Neocolonialism -- Examples of American and European Intervention -- Egypt -- Nigeria -- Zaire -- South Africa -- Angola -- Mozambique -- Libya -- Government Spending On Social Services -- Kenya -- Others -- Table of Contents.
Abstract:
This is the story of modern Africa: the reality of poverty, underdevelopment and the donor community. Are governments using politics and imported culture to trap ordinary Africans in a weakening web of international "friendship" and "economic partnership,.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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