The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

Introduction 1. Staging politics in Kenya 2. Shattered silences: political culture and 'democracy' in the early 1990s 3. Open secrets: everyday forms of domination before 1990 4. Moral economy and the quest for wealth in central Kenya since the late nineteenth century 5. The dove and the castor nut: Embu household economy in the 1980s 6. Conclusions: 'the showpiece of an hour'.