Kenya

Kenya today is strategically one of Africa's most important, yet controversial countries. Although beautiful, it is also vast, rural and poor, with no mineral resources, only a fraction of its land available for dense human settlement, and demographic pressures continuing to pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological and environmental challenges. This second edition of a national profile addresses these and other social issues facing Kenya in the 1990s, as well as tracing the country's political and economic developments from early pre-colonial times to the present day.