Author: Anne Thurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Smallholder Agriculture in Colonial Kenya
Author: Anne Thurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Gender and Kinship
Author: Jane Fishburne Collier
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Obama and Kenya
Author: Matthew Carotenuto
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Barack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama’s ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya’s past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial “tribal” violence, the story of the United States president’s nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical portrayals of Africa. At the same time, Kenyan state officials have aimed to weave Obama into the contested narrative of Kenyan nationhood. Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular but inaccurate texts about Kenya’s history and Obama’s place in it as well as focused, thematic analyses of contemporary debates about ethnic politics, “tribal” identities, postcolonial governance, and U.S. African relations.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Barack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama’s ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya’s past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial “tribal” violence, the story of the United States president’s nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical portrayals of Africa. At the same time, Kenyan state officials have aimed to weave Obama into the contested narrative of Kenyan nationhood. Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular but inaccurate texts about Kenya’s history and Obama’s place in it as well as focused, thematic analyses of contemporary debates about ethnic politics, “tribal” identities, postcolonial governance, and U.S. African relations.
Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda
Author: Raffaella Castagnini
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts. Deininger and Castagnini use data from Uganda to explore who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess their impact on productivity. Results indicate that female-headed households and widows are particularly affected and that the passage of the 1998 Land Act has failed to reduce the number of pending land conflicts. The authors also find evidence of a significant and quantitatively large productivity-reducing impact of land conflicts. This suggests that, especially in Africa, attention to land-related conflicts and exploration of ways to prevent and speedily resolve them would be an important area for policy as well as research. This paper--a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to explore the impact of land policies.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts. Deininger and Castagnini use data from Uganda to explore who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess their impact on productivity. Results indicate that female-headed households and widows are particularly affected and that the passage of the 1998 Land Act has failed to reduce the number of pending land conflicts. The authors also find evidence of a significant and quantitatively large productivity-reducing impact of land conflicts. This suggests that, especially in Africa, attention to land-related conflicts and exploration of ways to prevent and speedily resolve them would be an important area for policy as well as research. This paper--a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to explore the impact of land policies.
Wood, Energy, and Households
Author: Carolyn Barnes
Publisher: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Research papers on the use of fuelwood by rural households in Kenya - examines the findings of a national level survey of domestic power consumption in rural areas; presents case studies of the impact of population growth on supply and demand of wood, the relationships between social stratification and access to woodfuel resources, the ecological implications of wood use, and forest exploitation. Maps, references, tables.
Publisher: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Research papers on the use of fuelwood by rural households in Kenya - examines the findings of a national level survey of domestic power consumption in rural areas; presents case studies of the impact of population growth on supply and demand of wood, the relationships between social stratification and access to woodfuel resources, the ecological implications of wood use, and forest exploitation. Maps, references, tables.
Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa
Author: Birgit Englert
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847016111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847016111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
"Women Forget that Men are the Masters"
Author: Margrethe Silberschmidt
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064394
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A study about conflicts between men and women in contemporary Kisii, Kenya. The author argues that male identity, sense of worth and prestige have been more deeply affected by socio-economic change than that of female identity. The study emphasizes the need to examine in depth changing African social contexts within collapsing traditional structures.
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064394
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A study about conflicts between men and women in contemporary Kisii, Kenya. The author argues that male identity, sense of worth and prestige have been more deeply affected by socio-economic change than that of female identity. The study emphasizes the need to examine in depth changing African social contexts within collapsing traditional structures.
The Kipsigis
Author: Ian Q. Orchardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Before HIV
Author: Shane Declan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780191760488
Category : HIV infections
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Two of the most important questions in modern African history are the causes of its population explosion, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. 'Before HIV' shows that the more permissive sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly can be traced back to the mid-20th century, when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking emerged.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780191760488
Category : HIV infections
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Two of the most important questions in modern African history are the causes of its population explosion, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. 'Before HIV' shows that the more permissive sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly can be traced back to the mid-20th century, when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking emerged.
Kenya's Ethnic Communities
Author: Wangũhũ Ng'ang'a
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description