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Book Launch, May 25th: “Kenya in Motion 2000-2020”

Join us on Wednesday 25th May at 6:30pm at the Alliance Française in Nairobi to attend the launch of the edited volume “Kenya in Motion 2000-2000”.

The volume is available in Open Access online: https://books.openedition.org/africae/2390?lang=en

You can also get a paperback copy at IFRA offices and in the main bookshops of Nairobi.

This edited volume offers a broad understanding and particular visions of Kenya in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. By bringing together rigorous yet accessible contributions, it shows how, since the 2002 transition, Kenya has been striving for change through economic modernisation and political liberalisation. The planned transformations are coming to fruition, even if the legacies of the past and political habits are slowing down the process. The various chapters take us from developmental capitalism to extreme poverty and enduring inequalities, from reforms on paper to mixed results in multiple sectors: decentralised governance, natural resources, land, and education. They also explore Kenya’s ancient and colonial history and the diversity of its population. Thus, the book helps understand contemporary political, religious and community cleavages, the asymmetries between towns and the countryside, between Nairobi and the coast, in a country open to the world, as much through trade and finance as through art networks

French versions of the volume are also available (https://books.openedition.org/africae/2009)


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IFRA Nairobi (May 20, 2022). Book Launch, May 25th: “Kenya in Motion 2000-2020” IFRA Nairobi. Retrieved February 15, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/pw2b