It is now five decades since most of states in Africa were formed as a result of exit from political colonialism. They were formed with strong feelings of nationalism among the people and the freedom fighters. There was common faith that the social problem of the then African societies was nothing else but colonialism, hence beyond colonialism everything was to be fine to the tune of a political paradebeispiel. In contrast to this pre-independence utopia, political disillusionment, however, did …
Read moreIt is now five decades since most of states in Africa were formed as a result of exit from political colonialism. They were formed with strong feelings of nationalism among the people and the freedom fighters. There was common faith that the social problem of the then African societies was nothing else but colonialism, hence beyond colonialism everything was to be fine to the tune of a political paradebeispiel. In contrast to this pre-independence utopia, political disillusionment, however, did not take long to be realized across the African continent. Africans are substantially disappointed by their political systems and socialization at home. A condition that fuelled the outcome of Chinua Achebe’s famous book ,Troubles with Nigeria and also Oginga Odinga’s book, Not Yet Uhuru, as well as Nurudin Farah’s two books; the Naked Needle and secondly the Sour Milk. From all the above books, the charm cause of Africa’s political turbulence is inherent in the selfish power reservation mentality of the leadership across the time space of its five decades. This paper thus intends to bring to the surface, evidence of the Machiavellian thought in political socializations of Africa by using cross sectional and historical studies of the experiences in the political socialization in Kenya since 1960 to 2015.
