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Kenya’s Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire

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Kenya’s Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was once implement as Kenya’s history as a colonial possession came to an end. It details the attempts of the colony’s political elite and the British Colonial Place of job to discover a constitutional means to move Kenya to the status of independent state. As this process moved forward, political ethnicity assumed central significance. This produced an environment wherein demands for a federal constitution, popularly termed majimbo, came to dominate constitutional discourse. Deep war of words among Kenya’s political elite over this issue marked the rest of the colonial period. That elite, now represented by the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), advocated different constitutional paths to independence. KADU’s demands for a majimbo constitution dominated discourse right through 1962 and early 1963, but deep war of words characterized the constitutional negotiations. This resulted in a constitution for self-government (introduced on June 1, 1963) that was once regional in character but fell short of a federal system. Almost as soon as it came into existence, this constitution faced pressure for substantial change from KANU, the party that won the 1963 general election. In consequence, the British government was once forced to make alterations in what became the independence constitution. The latter proved a prelude to the destruction of majimbo a year later.

Kenya’s Independence Constitution provides the first in-depth description of the final stage of colonial Kenya’s constitutional evolution. This book not only provides a detailed account of the process of constitution-making, including definitive treatments of the final two constitutional conferences of 1962 and 1963. Utilizing British and Kenya cabinet papers and secret intelligence reports never featured in earlier accounts, the narrative also destroys most of the myt

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