ABSTRACT
In spring 1965,1 the Kenya Government published its long-awaited policy statement, ‘Sessional Paper No. 10, African Socialism and its application to planning in Kenya’ (Republic of Kenya 1965). It is this document, which one observer thought ‘sounded as if it had been drafted by neither an African nor a socialist’ (‘Critic’ in Nationalist of Tanzania, 28 June 1965, cited in Odinga 1967:310), which is at the core of this chapter.
