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Branch, Daniel (2018) Political traffic : Kenyan students in Eastern and Central Europe, 1958-69. Journal of Contemporary History, 53 (4). pp. 811-831. doi:10.1177/0022009418761194 ISSN 1461-7250.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418761194
Abstract
This paper explores the experiences of Kenyan students in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and other communist states between 1958 and 1969. Existing studies of student mobility from Kenya in this period have concentrated the experiences of students in the U.S., a theme familiar to many readers because of Barack Obama’s family history. By contrast, and by using recently released sources from the British archives and material from Tom Mboya's papers at the Hoover Institute Archives, the paper analyses the political debates that centred upon this much larger group of students who travelled East. The paper demonstrates how newfound freedoms of movement were tempered by racism, colonial obstruction and domestic political considerations. The global opportunities that seemed to be presented by decolonisation proved to be a chimera. The paper locates the experiences of the students in a broader context of debates around decolonisation and globalization, but emphasises the importance of the students' experiences at home and abroad to the process of state building undertaken in Kenya at this time.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Kenyan students -- History -- Soviet Union, Kenyan students -- History -- Bulgaria | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Contemporary History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1461-7250 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 October 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 53 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 811-831 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022009418761194 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Branch, Daniel (2018) Political traffic : Kenyan students in Eastern and Central Europe, 1958-69. Journal of Contemporary History . doi:10.1177/0022009418761194. Copyright © 2018 ! The Author(s) 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418761194 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 June 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 June 2018 | ||||||||
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