Politics in Kenya: The Development of Peasant Society

Colin Leys

British Journal of Political Science, 1971, vol. 1, issue 3, 307-337

Abstract: The central question which this article attempts to raise is how we should understand the social structure that is emerging from the neo-colonial pattern of change in Africa, and what implications it has for politics. In its simplest form, the question is how far a stratification system is developing which is likely to make for class formation, class consciousness, and a politics of class struggle; or how far stratification can be contained within a predominantly peasant society, expressed politically in patron-client relationships.

Date: 1971
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