ECONOMY IN KENYAN COLONIAL HISTORY (1895 - 1963): A HISTORIOGRAPHY WRITING

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Mengistu Mitiku

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A major phenomenon of Africa's twentieth century was colonialism. Kenya was a country representing a typical position in organized the scope and nature of East Africa's colonial economic history scholarship, in which the country becomes the centerpiece of an existing colonial economic knowledge and shaped the perspectives for interpreting other countries. However, there are always tensions with the colonial economic historiography dominance of Kenya, ranging from the silences and biases to the lack of theories and frameworks. What are needed, therefore, are both a rectification of the historiography imbalance and the development of new frameworks of new colonial economic historical analysis.

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Mitiku, M. (2024). ECONOMY IN KENYAN COLONIAL HISTORY (1895 - 1963): A HISTORIOGRAPHY WRITING. Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.58256/15q4z154
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Mitiku, M. (2024). ECONOMY IN KENYAN COLONIAL HISTORY (1895 - 1963): A HISTORIOGRAPHY WRITING. Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.58256/15q4z154

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