| Popis: |
Kenya’s decolonisation was founded upon a contradictory and precarious strategy, menaced by the proliferation of consecutive waves of plantation strikes which revealed the unplanned formation of a rural proletariat, defying all nostrums of how a working class should emerge. There was a consensus that the brakes had to be applied to the spontaneous actions of this unwelcome actor and its further development diverted to consolidate the basis of the elite transition to independence on 2 October 1963. During the colony’s State of Emergency, declared on 20 October 1952, the imperial power attempted to violently atomise the organisation and sever the symbiotic ties of the urban proletariat. However, while being displaced from the key urban locations and pivots of the colony, these relationships stood to form elsewhere, especially in the rural presence of monopoly capital in the Kericho Valley where a rural proletariat emerged in face of attempts to reverse this process along a course of ‘peasantisation’ through land resettlement schemes. |
