Kenya: Africanization Process
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 July 1989 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KEN1611 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kenya: Africanization Process, 1 July 1989, KEN1611, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab0990.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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In 1964 the government of Kenya adopted an "Africanization" or "Kenyanization", plan to replace non-citizens with citizens in key areas of the economy. [ George Thomas Kurian, Encyclopedia of the Third World, Vol.2, (New York: Facts on File Inc., 1987), p.1047.] The Trade Licensing Act of 1967 provides for the exclusion of "non-citizens from various trades and professions and from all but five specified General Trading (geographic) areas. The legislation is specifically framed to exclude non-citizens". [ Rhoda E. Howard, Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa, (New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1986), p.102.]
Please find attached the chapter on Kenya, by Claude Ake, from Indigenization of African Economies, and the Minority Rights Group report on East Africa's Asians.