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Title: | Ethnic inequalities in Kenya |
Author: | Rothchild, D. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 689-711 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | plural society ethnic relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/159158 |
Abstract: | Attempts to apply the approach of political economy to the question of elite recruitment. Seeks to examine recruitment as a conflict of interests facing decisionmakers in Kenya. This leads to a discussion of the crucial issue of resource allocation, for the priorities established in expenditure patterns are of direct relevance to the opportunity for members of various ethnic groups to compete in the market place for political and economic positions. Discusses also ethnic conflicts, ranging both the less favoured against the more favoured traditional groupings and the non-Africans (Europeans and Asians) against the Africans. Attempts to gauge for these two situations the priorities that the Kenya Government places upon the somewhat conflicting claims of equity and economic development. Examined more closely are the various preasures on the Government and the consistency of its responses to the different demands. The reasons for a conflict between the claims of equity and economic development are investigated and an analysis is made of how the Kenya Government is attempting to meet this problem. Ref., tables. |