The Kenya Provincial Administration a Study on the Continuity of Colonial Institutions

Abstract

The role of the Provincial Administration as an extension of the ideology of the group in power and its effect on human rights, has never been investigated this is an attempt to traversing this neglected. This investigation has in effect been ambitious for it h s attempted to bring within its ambit most of the general aspects which underlie the authoritarianism of the provincial administration and the effect of this on human rights. Consequently, an attempt has been made to examine the provincial administration since its inception to the contemporary period. This examination therefore brings into sharp focus the historical element with the hope that this would help explain the nature of this institution. A study of history has been helpful in the sense that it demonstrated that in the last 75 years of its life, the social milieu of the Kenyan society h s not changed in any significant way. Consequently, the provincial administration be has not changed and this study therefore has been predicted on a plane of historical continum • In this respect there has been therefore a deliberate attempt not to introduce a break into the paper into the form of any chapters sub-chapters and titles and sub-titles. This exercise has deemed necessary for it as it were mimes the

outreaching and progress (if only in terms of time) of the provincial administration on the historical plane• This author however, hastens to add that this i not a pioneer work on the provincial administration but an analysis that is based on economic approach. It is therefore the approach that is novel. In this examination certain abbreviations have been used principle amongst the being, EAS, stand for THE EAST AFRICAN STANDARD" and P.C., PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER ,D. C." DISTRICT COMMISSIONER D.O. for DISTRICT OFFICER". Because of its general nature constant reference to the footnotes and appendixes will be found useful • Several people have made this examination see the print. Principal of these being Mr. Ander’s Karlsoon ( IDA) whose insight into political thought it guided through the mysteries of political analysis …