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A Blessing or Curse?: The Mboya-Kennedy Students’ Airlift and its Implications.

Odari, Catherine J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313975817

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2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
This thesis explores the roles played by the Mboya-Kennedy students’ airlifts of 1959-1961 both domestically and internationally. While the students’ airlifts contributed to the cultivation of good relations between the United States of America and Kenya, it helped determine the course of Kenyan domestic politics with lasting impact. The study revealed that the airlifts program contributed to the fall-out amongst the first crop of Kenyan politicians and consequently, ethnic rivalries between the Kikuyu and the Luo which persists today especially in the political arena. Newspaper articles, archival materials, autobiographies, memoirs, US State Department records and oral interviews were used. This study’s contribution is two –fold. At the domestic level, it initiates a conversation on the effects the airlift program had on ethnic rivalries and Kenyan politics. At the international level, it advances the scholarly conversation on the change of US foreign policies in the early 1960s on the issue of race not only within the United States, but also internationally.
Allan Winkler, PhD (Advisor)
Amanda McVety, PhD (Committee Member)
Andrew Cayton, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
African History
Mboya; students' airlift; Kenya ethnic rivalry; Kenya-US relations

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  • Odari, C. J. (2011). A Blessing or Curse?: The Mboya-Kennedy Students’ Airlift and its Implications. [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313975817

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Odari, Catherine. A Blessing or Curse?: The Mboya-Kennedy Students’ Airlift and its Implications. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313975817.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Odari, Catherine. "A Blessing or Curse?: The Mboya-Kennedy Students’ Airlift and its Implications." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313975817

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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