Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Chapter One: Background to Constitution-Making and Decolonization
Chapter 4 Chapter Two: Pressures for a New Constitution: Kenya, 1960–1961
Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Majimbo Takes Center Stage
Chapter 6 Chapter Four: The Battle forMajimbo: Lancaster House II
Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Making the Constitution, April–December 1962
Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Completing the Constitution, December 1962–April 1963
Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: The 1963 Election and Setting a Date for Independence
Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Change the Constitution Part 1: April–September 1963
Chapter 11 Chapter Nine: Change the Constitution Part 2: Lancaster House III and Kenya's Independence Constitution, September–December 1963
Chapter 12 Chapter Ten: Constitution-Making:Uhuru na Majimbo
Chapter 13 Notes
Chapter 14 Bibliography
Chapter 15 Index

About the Author

Robert M. Maxon is professor of African history at West Virginia University.

Reviews

Robert Maxon, a highly respected historian of Kenya, provides a detailed account of the complicated negotiation processes which led to the finalization of Kenya’s independence constitution.

He has provided what is undoubtedly a magisterial and highly authoritative account of Kenya’s tumultuous independence process which will provide the major point of reference on the subject for many years ahead.
*Journal of Contemporary African Studies*