Abstract
The Kenyan cooperative sector has undergone tremendous changes over the years. In the colonial era, the sector moved from being an exclusive white-owned state-dependent organisations to the introduction of black-owned cooperatives to raise a middle class to counter popular uprising. In the post-colonial era, the sector has moved from being state-dependent to an independent era where it now operates as a successful business entity. This chapter provides a historical overview of the Kenyan cooperative sector with the goal of establishing key success/failure indicators thereof. The aim is to identify critical lessons that can be applied in other contexts.
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The Swynnerton Plan was an agricultural policy implemented in colonial Keya to bring about rapid development in the country’s agriculture focusing particularly on cash crop production among Kenyans previously excluded from cash crop production. The Plan followed a report of a study by Roger Swynnerton, an official of the Department of Agriculture at the time. The plan, however, was largely seen as a political tool to counter the waning popularity of colonial rule.
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Tshishonga, N., Okem, A.E. (2016). A Review of the Kenyan Cooperative Movement. In: Okem, A. (eds) Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Cooperatives. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34216-0_5
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