Africa Today articles from September 1994

Africa Today archives from September 1994

Kenya: state and civil society the first year after the election.(Kenyan Politics: What Role for Civil Society?)
September 22, 1994... The 29 December 1992 Kenyan multiparty elections for president, parliament, and local government were heavily burdened with hopes and fears. They were the first such elections since 1963 and they came after a long period of one-party rule,...

Mamas fighting for freedom in Kenya.(Kenyan Politics: What Role for Civil Society?)
September 22, 1994... On the last day of February 1992, a group of rural, elderly, Kikuyu women descended on Nairobi with a potent demand. Empowered by a tradition of female activism and collective activity, a group of mothers of political prisoners acted on...

Human rights and state despotism in Kenya: institutional problems.(African Rights Monitor)
September 22, 1994... Autocracy: Basis for Human Rights Abuses Kenya's post-independence history has been marked by sharp contradiction between the state and civil society in spite of the image, created in the West during the Cold War, that the east African nation...

The pauperization of the Maasai in Kenya.(African Rights Monitor)
September 22, 1994... Visiting Maasai friends 40 years ago, whether in Kenya or Tanzania, one was invariably offered a generous drink of milk in each home visited. Today, if anything, one is offered tea with little or no milk added. This article is a non-Malthusian...

Fighting Two Sides: Kenyan Chiefs and Politicians, 1918-1940.
September 22, 1994... Marshall Clough's book is a valuable contribution to Kenyan historiography. It is well-written, concise, well-argued and coherent. It should prove very useful to scholars of Kenya's history and even to general readers interested in colonial...

Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity, 2d ed.
September 22, 1994... As an introductory profile of Kenya's history, politics, economy, and society, this book does an excellent job of introducing and exploring the pertinent events, movements and central issues. As with the first edition written by the first...

Kenyan Foreign Policy Behavior Towards Somalia, 1963-1983.
September 22, 1994... I read Korwa Adar's book on the conflict between Somalia and Kenya through the contemporary lenses of instability and state collapse in Somalia. Such momentous events naturally force analyses into sometimes futile searches for glimpses from the...

When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya.
September 22, 1994... Oral tradition is now acknowledged as an effective and valuable tool in the recovery and reconstruction of the African past. Reliance on oral tradition is necessary because sub-Saharan Africa consisted of civilizations and communities in which...

Beneath the Rainbow: A Collection of Children's Stories and Poems from Kenya.
September 22, 1994... Volume two of Jacaranda Design's children's collection holds three stories by Kariuki Gakuo: "The Cave of Horns," "Mingo the Flamingo," and "Princess Rainbow" are tightly integrated and retain a creative tension. Unfortunately, the other two...