Acronyms
Preface
Introduction. To the Test of Social and Political Violence: From the Kenya of Millionaires and Millions of Beggars to the Three Kenyas of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 1. State, Economy and Development in Kenya
Focus no. 1. The World of Banks and Finance in Kenya
Chapter 2. The Large Gaps in Development in Kenya
Chapter 3. Emerging Elites, Oligarchy, and the Kenyan Middle Classes
Chapter 4. Between Hopes and Disillusionment: Constitutional Reforms and Decentralisation in Kenya, 2000–2020
Chapter 5. Low-Cost Business in Kenya from the City to the Countryside
Chapter 6. The Politicisation of Land Policy Reform in Contemporary Kenya
Chapter 7. Natural Resources Management in Kenya (Water and Forest): Centralised Policies, Between Exclusion and Participation of the Local Population
Chapter 8. Securing the Everyday Nairobi: Challenges and Tactics of Private Security Guards in the Fragmented City
Chapter 9. What Education for All in Kenya? The School of Inequalities
Focus no. 2. The Regionalisation of University Systems: An Empty Shell?
Chapter 10. Christian Forms of Religion in Kenya
Focus no. 3. The Church as a Provider of Material Support: An Inner/Outer Circles Perspective
Chapter 11. Minorities of Indo-Pakistani Origin
Chapter 12. Kenya's Coast: Religion, Race, Ethnicity and the Elusive Nature of Political Community
Focus no. 4. History, Memory, and the Heritage of Slavery on the Kenyan Coast: The Witu and Shimoni Cases
Chapter 13. Beyond its Whitewashed Past, the Unique Peoples of Precolonial Kenya
Focus no. 5. The Aravai Peoples, the Site of Rabai and its Sacred Forests on the Kenyan Coast
Chapter 14. Stage Dynamics: Presentation and Representation in the Nairobi Art Market
Focus no. 6. Into a "Global Encounter" from the Art Scene in Nairobi
The Authors