Date of Award
2011-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
History
Advisor(s)
Charles Ambler
Abstract
This work is an intellectual history focussing on the ideas surrounding the implimentaiton of democratic systems in Africa, and specifically Kenya, at the end of the cold war. Taking the constitutional change to multi-party politics in Kenya in late 1991 as its fulcrum, this work examines the ideas about democracy put forth by politcians and policy-making cirlces in the United States and Kenya during this period. The work begins with an examination of the attitudes toward democracy in Africa as expressed at the U.S. congressional hearings on aid to Africa in 1991, and ends with an afterward looking at the idealogy surrounding democracy in the wake of the 2007 election violence in Kenya.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2011
File Size
122 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Cullen Haskins
Recommended Citation
Haskins, Cullen, "Thomas Jefferson in Nairobi: The United States, Kenya, and the Democratization Debate" (2011). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 2311.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/2311
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