KENYA, HISTORY OF

history of the area from the 19th century to the present. Additional reading Bethwell A. Ogot (ed.), Kenya Before 1900 (1976), contains essays on aspects of the history of various African peoples from about AD 500. George Bennett, Kenya, a Political History: The Colonial Period (1963), is a brief but scholarly account. Robert L. Tignor, The Colonial Transformation of Kenya (1976), recounts the impact of colonial rule on African individuals and societies from 1900 to 1939. G.H. Mungeam, British Rule in Kenya, 18951912: The Establishment of Administration in the East Africa Protectorate (1966), is detailed and carefully researched. Marjorie Ruth Dilley, British Policy in Kenya Colony, 2nd ed. (1966), explains the development of a British administrative philosophy to the mid-1930s. Guy Arnold, Kenyatta and the Politics of Kenya (1974), analyzes the role of Kenyatta in the political development of Kenya from 1922. Carl G. Rosberg, Jr. and John Nottingham, The Myth of Mau Mau: Nationalism in Kenya (1966), views the origins and character of the rebellion in a reliable, detached manner. David Throup, Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau, 194553 (1987), is a well-documented and well-researched work on the rebellion. Norman N. Miller, Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity (1984), carefully studies the politics, economics, and diplomacy of Kenya since independence. Donald Rothchild, Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya: A Study of Minorities and Decolonization (1973), analyzes the conflict between ethnicity and national identity after independence. Kenneth Ingham