Author : Martin J.D. Hill
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1991-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A fieldwork study of the social organization of community self-help, which focuses on Kenya's harambee self-help movement. Its origins lie in traditional community work parties and colonial forced labour. The author explores this movement, its principles, political processes, social stratification and developmental planning. The book is intended for students of anthropology, African studies, and development studies.
Author : Martin Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 100032463X
A fieldwork study of the social organization of community self-help, which focuses on Kenya's harambee self-help movement. Its origins lie in traditional community work parties and colonial forced labour. The author explores this movement, its principles, political processes, social stratification and developmental planning. The book is intended for students of anthropology, African studies, and development studies.
Author : Philip M. Mbithi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9789171061218
Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178699433X
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While the impact of the Digital Age on Western politics has been extensively debated, there is still little appreciation of how it has been felt in developing countries such as Kenya, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other online platforms are increasingly a part of everyday life. Written by a respected Kenyan activist and researcher at the forefront of political online struggles, this book presents a unique contribution to the debate on digital democracy. For traditionally marginalised groups, particularly women and people with disabilities, digital spaces have allowed Kenyans to build new communities which transcend old ethnic and gender divisions. But the picture is far from wholly positive. Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how 'fake news', a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president's recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nyabola's ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era.
Author : Jennifer N. Brass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316721051
Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.
Author : Nishani Frazier
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1682260186
BLACK POWER! It was a phrase that consumed the American imagination in the 1960s and 70s and inspired a new agenda for black freedom. Dynamic and transformational, the black power movement embodied more than media stereotypes of gun-toting, dashiki-wearing black radicals; the movement opened new paths to equality through political and economic empowerment. In Harambee City, Nishani Frazier chronicles the rise and fall of black power within the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) by exploring the powerful influence of the Cleveland CORE chapter. Frazier explores the ways that black Clevelanders began to espouse black power ideals including black institution building, self-help, and self-defense. These ideals challenged CORE’s philosophy of interracial brotherhood and nonviolent direct action, spawning ideological ambiguities in the Cleveland chapter. Later, as Cleveland CORE members rose to national prominence in the organization, they advocated an open embrace of black power and encouraged national CORE to develop a notion of black community uplift that emphasized economic populism over political engagement. Not surprisingly, these new empowerment strategies found acceptance in Cleveland. By providing an understanding of the tensions between black power and the mainstream civil rights movement as they manifested themselves as both local and national forces, Harambee City sheds new light on how CORE became one of the most dynamic civil rights organizations in the black power era.
Author : Equal Rights Trust
Publisher : Hodder Christian Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780956071750
Author : Jennifer A. Widner
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520076242
00 Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa. Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa.
Author : Wangari Maathai
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590560402
Wangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Author : Bethwell A. Ogot
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 9780821410516
This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the book is a courageous reflection in the dilemmas of African nationhood. Professor B. A. Ogot says: "The main purpose of the book is to show that decolonization does not only mean the transfer of alien power to sovereign nationhood; it must also entail the liberation of the worlds of spirit and culture, as well as economics and politics. "The book also raises a more fundamental question, that is: How much independence is available to any state, national economy or culture in today's world? It asks how far are Africa's miseries linked to the colonial past and to the process of decolonization? "In particular the book raises the basic question of how far Kenya is avoidably neo-colonial? And what does neo-colonial dependence mean? The book answers these questions by discussing the dynamic between the politics of decolonization, the social history of class formation and the economics of dependence. The book ends with a provocative epilogue discussing the transformation of the post-colonial state from a single-party to a multi-party system."
