| dc.description.abstract | The winds of political change have been sweeping across Kenya for the last
two decades. However, as many sections of society?the media, the church, civil
society, and even ordinary people?take advantage of the unprecedented democratic
space in which to engage the political establishment, the country's intelligentsia has
remained aloof. The aim of this article is to interrogate discourse patterns in the
Kenyan university system. Adopting a historical lens, it argues that the curtailment
of intellectual freedom in the postcolonial Kenyan university is a reproduction of
the colonial suppression of discourses whose objective was to ensure the political
survival of the ruling class. It | en_US |
