Kenya's Foreign Policy Relations -The Case of The 1960s' Tom Mboya and J.FKennedy African Students' Airlift

Abstract

It is now over fifty years since Kenya got her independence in 1963. However, three quarters of her population still live on less than a dollar a day. The country is plagued by corruption, food insecurity, lack of employment, environmental degradation and poor governance. When one look) at these issues, one cannot help but wonder why the country is not moving forward as would have been expected. This research looked look at the pre-independence foreign polices as the growth of any country very much depends on her projection of interest. Since history repeats itself more often than not, the research delved into the history of Kenya's foreign relations with the world super power- US. In this case, the 1960s' African Students' Airlifts, then known as the Tom Mboya/J.F Kennedy African Students' Airlifts. The rationale is that the introduction of the relations between these two states determined the nature of future relations.