POWER AND THE PRESIDENCY IN KENYA, the Jomo Kenyatta years

306pp., paperback, Reprint, Cambridge, (2020) 2020

"Anaïs Angelo combines an insightful analysis of the political imagination and political style of Jomo Kenyatta with a vivid portrayal of infighting among the elite around him. Her study provides a rare glimpse into politics at the summit of an African regime." Frederick Cooper, New York University and author of Africa Since 1940: The past of the present

"In this newly researched book Dr Angelo persuasively enters into the controversies surrounding the first Kenyatta's presidency, to portray it as a power created by a political elite who had no authority other than his peculiarly enigmatic charisma and who then exploited it in their own self-interest, with an eye to insuring their privileges against the uncertain future that lay ahead without him." John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge

Anaïs Angelo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Wien, Austria.