Abstract: | With the resignation from the Government of Iginga Odinga the political cleavage which has existed in Kenya since the early 1960s has crystallised. Kenya has made the transition from nationalist to Ideological politics faster than its sister states. The article, written before the 'little election of June 1966 had taken place, examines the emergence of this political condition, and the relative isolation of the left which has accompanied it. Kenya's internal political 're'-alignment is a major development in post-colonial African politics. It could mark the first overt confrontation between the consensus ideology of nation building and an effort to organize politics on a socio-economic basis. The country now contains all of the elements necessary to become Africa's first test of the argument that nation building, rather than class conflict, must be the second stage of anticolonial nationalism. |