The Politics Of Foreign Aid In Kenya Since Idependence, 1963 - 1977

Abstract

Post-independence politics in Kenya has been concerned with the choices that would promote economic and social development of the country. One of the main factors influencing such choices has been external capital, particularly foreign aid from western countries and institutions. Being complementary to metropolitan capital exported to Kenya, among other poor and backward countries of the world, foreign aid has, ever since the colonial period, been a tool to promote exploitation and domination or underdevelopment and dependence of the country at the hands of metropolitan-based international monopoly capital. It has also been largely instrumental to the creation of social, economic and political conditions that are conducive to the continuation and expansion of such exploitation and domination, underdevelopment and dependence of this country in order to facilitate further development of the metropolis..