Description:
This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies.
Review Quotes:
This is an important and original book on the hitherto little studied, but critically significant subject of banking. Christian Velasco has written an illuminating book that promises to make us think differently about colonialism and decolonisation in Kenya.
Daniel Branch, University of Warwick, UK
Velasco's is the first book that directly addresses the transition of commercial banking in a country that has become a reference, specifically thanks to the huge success of Mpesa to alleviate financial inclusion.
This offers a window in to the broader issue of how capitalism arrived and evolved in Sub-sharan Africa. A detailed and well-documented story that will be of interest to scholars and practitioners alike.
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Northumbria University, UK & Universidad Anahuac, Mexico