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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The So-Called National Bourgeoisie in Kenya |
Author: | Campbell, Horace |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Ufahamu |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 86-130 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | middle class political elite Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) |
Abstract: | To state that Africa must develop with the emergence of a national bourgeoisie is an Eurocentric view of social development. It comes from both Marxists and non-Marxists and has been buttressed by the debate on articulation of modes of production. In the debate about the bourgeoisie in Kenya, the conditions of the proletarianised masses are ignored. The literature as sprinkled with structural notions of relative autonomous classes, although there is only discussion of one class, the new ruling class in Kenya. The author comments on various examples of such literature, including works dealing with dependency and underdevelopment (Walter Rodney, Clive Thomas, E.A. Brett), the role of transnationals (Steve Langdon), the creation of African capitalists and the question of who they are (William Attwood, Peter Marris and Anthony Somerset, Roger van Zwaneberg, Kipkorir Aly Azad Rana, Nicola Swainson) and the pre-capitalist accumulators (Colin Leys). Notes. |