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      Review of African Political Economy

      Volume 4, Issue 8
       
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      The rise of a national bourgeoisie in Kenya

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            Using detailed analysis of data from two case studies, evidence is provided of the growth of indigenous capitalist enterprise in Kenya. A local capitalist class is developing, originally based on merchant capital and gradually moving into manufacturing. Far from this bourgeoisie being ‘auxiliary’ (Leys’ term) to international capital, it has used its connections with the Kenya state successfully to establish itself in direct competition with foreign firms. The tendency of dependency theory to see the principal contradiction as an external imperialism leads to a failure to see the developing internal class contradictions posed by a rising national bburgeoisie and to derive relevant political strategies for the oppressed classes.

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            Journal ID (publisher-id): crea20
            Journal ID (archive): CREA
            Title: Review of African Political Economy
            Publisher: Review of African Political Economy
            ISSN (Print): 0305-6244
            ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720
            Publication date (Print): January-April 1977
            Volume: 4
            Issue: 8
            Pages: 39-55
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            Publisher ID: 8703310 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 4, No. 8, January-April 1977, pp. 39-55
            DOI: 10.1080/03056247708703310
            SO-VID: 426ad942-da8d-46d8-84ca-6757dc1b22cf
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            ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

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            1. view in his book. Underdevelopment in Kenya , ( Heinemann , London , 1975 ).

            2. and , ‘On Household Production in the Countryside’ , Section III, IDS , Nairobi , March 1977 (mimeo).

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