Introduction: Political Linkage and Political Space in the Era of Decolonization

摘要: The continuing importance of Kenya's institutional colonial inheritance has been underestimated because the impact decolonization on formal political institutions rarely systematically addressed. Consequently, there is a pressing need to reevaluate structure government in and postcolonial periods manner that takes critical perspective domestic relationship between opposition. In addition introducing papers follow, this essay examines factors underpin continued supremacy executive-administrative axis Kenya postcolony. It develops twin concepts linkage space as tools describe landscape eras. Institutional factors, it argued, must be central any attempt explain longevity eventual breakdown KANU rule.