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| Title: | Profitable inefficiency: The politics of port infrastructure in Mombasa, Kenya |
| Author: | Lamarque, Hugh |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies (ISSN 0022-278X) |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 85-109 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | ports politics infrastructure |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000630 |
| Abstract: | This article examines the distribution of power among public, private and criminal interests invested in Mombasa port. It approaches Kenya as a gatekeeper state, in which national elites compete to control the country's points of interaction with the rest of the world. Mombasa's controversial private dry ports are used to highlight (1) how the opportunity to profit from inefficiencies in container storage has been distributed among the political elite, and (2) how the development of the country's principal seaport not only reflects Kenya's underlying political settlements, but is one of the key sites in which those settlements are tested and reshaped. The case exposes a dynamic interaction between Kenya's shifting political settlement on the one hand, and the gate itself - Mombasa port's physical infrastructure and regulations - on the other. |
