Research Catalog

Title

East Africa in transition : images, institutions, and identities / edited by Judith M. Bahemuka, Joseph L. Brockington.

Author

International Symposium on East Africa in Transition (2nd : 2001 : University of Nairobi)

Publication

Nairobi, Kenya : University of Nairobi Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Brockington, Joseph L., 1951-
• International Learning Center.
• Mbula, J.

Description

xii, 313 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Africa, East > Politics and government > Congresses
• Africa, East > Social conditions > Congresses
• Group identity > Africa, East > Congresses
• Social change > Africa, East > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Kongress.
• Nairobi (2001)

Note

• "Second International Symposium on East Africa in Transition held in July 2001 at the University of Nairobi; Sponsored by the International Learning Center"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Importance of indigenous African languages / Kithaka wa Mberia -- Out of the quagmire : convergence of learning from both sides through systems thinking -- lessons from Senge and Friere / James M. Nijhia -- Political conflicts and political integration in Africa : some lessons for East Africa / P. Anyang' Nyong'o -- Imagination and initiation in Kama Kamanda's tales / Lauren Yoder -- Inter-University Council for East Africa / Moses Golola -- Higher education in Africa / Florida A. Karani -- New trends in the financing of Kenyan public universities / Lenah Nakhone -- Making institutions work for the poor in Kenya : a search for institutional strategies / Winnie V. Mullah -- Kenyan debate in global context / Parvin Alizadeh -- Rural households, structural adjustment and gender analysis / James Michael Warner and Jeffrey T. Bookwater -- Transition to democracy : the struggle for power in the transition to democracy : the Executive, the Judiciary and the Parliament / A.G.G. Gingyera-Pinycwa -- Challenging the political order : the politics of presidential succession in Kenya / Peter Wanyande -- Identities and conflicting identities : a colonial legacy and a neo-colonial African dilemma / Katama Mkangi -- Religion and cultural identity : the case of the African instituted churches / Nahashon W. Ndungu -- Rites of passage : controversy over the role of initiation ceremonies for cultural identity among some Kenyan societies : the case of the Abagusii community of South-Western Kenya / Solomon Monyenye -- Widow's perception of being remarried / Helen Oronga Aswani Mwanzi -- Archaeology in Kenya / Isaac Wasike Were.

ISBN

9966846565

LCCN

^^2004411241

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library