Author: Danson P. Lumumba EsesePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu-speaking peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Changing System of Land Ownership and Its Socio-economic Effects in Lugari Division, Western Province of Kenya, C. 1880-2000
Author: Danson P. Lumumba EsesePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu-speaking peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Seeing Like a Citizen
Author: Kara MoskowitzPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821446894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya’s late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, and social transition. In focusing on rural Kenyans—the vast majority of the populace and the main targets of development interventions—as they actively sought access to aid, she offers new insights into the texture of political life in decolonizing Kenya and the early postcolonial world. Using multisited archival sources and oral histories focused on the western Rift Valley, Seeing Like a Citizen makes three fundamental contributions to our understanding of African and Kenyan history. First, it challenges the widely accepted idea of the gatekeeper state, revealing that state control remained limited and that the postcolonial state was an internally varied and often dissonant institution. Second, it transforms our understanding of postcolonial citizenship, showing that its balance of rights and duties was neither claimed nor imposed, but negotiated and differentiated. Third, it reorients Kenyan historiography away from central Kenya and elite postcolonial politics. The result is a powerful investigation of experiences of independence, of the meaning and form of development, and of how global political practices were composed and recomposed on the ground in local settings.
The Social Cost of Small Families and Land Reform
Author: George C. MkangiPublisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Colonialism anmd its segacy; Population growth and socio-economic change; Population as a labour resource; Food production, consuption, and cash expenditure; Family planning: the wish, the knowledge and the practice.
Political Succession in East Africa
Author: Chris Maina PeterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Searching for Land Tenure Security in Africa
Author: Geoecology of Landscape Dynamics
Author: Seema SahdevPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811520976
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the ecological indicators of landscape dynamics in the context of geographical landscape integration. Landscape dynamics depicts every change that occurs in the physical, biological, and cognitive assets of a landscape. To understand and interpret the complex physical, biological, and cognitive phenomena of landscapes, it is necessary to operate conceptually and practically on a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Rapid land use changes have become a concern to environmentalists and planners because of their impacts on the natural ecosystem, which further determines socioeconomic dynamics. In this regard, the book discusses case studies that share new insights into how landscape patterns and processes impact small creatures, and how small creatures in turn influence landscape structure and composition. In turn, the relevant aspects of land use and land cover dynamics are covered, and the multi-faceted relationship between the substrata and ecological community is highlighted. The book is unique in its focus on the application of spatial informatics such as automatic building extraction from high-resolution imagery; a soil resource inventory for meeting the challenges of land degradation; hydrological modeling; the temporal variation analysis of glacier area and the identification and mapping of glacial lakes; morphometric analysis of river basins; and the monitoring and modeling of urban sprawl, among other features.
A Demographic Analysis of East Africa
Author: Mette MonstedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780841997288
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Multi-party Politics in Kenya
Author: David ThroupPublisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852558096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The two authors of this work analyze the case of post-colonial Kenya under Kenyatta and Moi and show how, in spite of a multi-party system, the ruling elite has kept power and wealth to itself.
The Politics of Transition in Kenya
Author: W. Ouma OyugiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democratization
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Cooperative Movement
Author: Richard C. WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131703726X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Richard Williams surveys the history of the cooperative movement from its origins in the 18th century and deals with the theory of cooperation, as contrasted with the 'Standard Economic Model', based on competition. The book contains the results of field studies of a number of successful cooperatives both in the developed and developing world. It includes insights from personal interviews of cooperative members and concludes by considering the successes and challenges of the cooperative movement as an alternative to the global neo-colonialism and imperialism that now characterizes free-market capitalist approaches to globalization. The book considers democratic and local control of essential economic activities such as the production, distribution, and retailing of goods and services. It suggests that cooperative approaches to these economic activities are already reducing poverty and resulting in equitable distributions of wealth and income without plundering the resources of developing countries.