Kenya after 50 : reconfiguring education, gender, and policy / edited by Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Michael Mwenda Kithinji and Jerono P. Rotich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mwanzia Koster, Mickie, editor.

Kithinji, Michael Mwenda, editor.

Rotich, Jerono P., editor.

Series:

African histories and modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Social conditions.

Kenya--Social conditions--21st century.

Kenya.

Kenya--Politics and government--2002-.

Politics and government.

Education and state--Kenya.

Education and state.

Women--Kenya--Social conditions--21st century.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Kenya after fifty

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction / Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Michael Kithinji, and Jerono Rotich

Education model and university curriculum in Kenya : dysfunctionality and reforms since independence / Michael Mwenda Kithinji

Geoffrey William Griffin's work at the National Youth Service : contributions to Kenya's national development / Peter Otiato Ojiambo

Teach our children in their mother tongue / Margaret W. Njeru

Reassessing Jomo Kenyatta's crackdown on theatre for education and development / Samson Kaunga Ndanyi

Mpesa as a Kenyan success story : economic progress and social impact / Frank Jacobs

Combating road traffic accidents in Kenya : a challenge for an emerging economy / Charles G. Manyara

Kenya at 50 : contextualization of post-independence sporting success / W. W. S. Njororai

Can Kenyan women really perform? Women on the sports field and in the boardroom / W. W. S. Njororai

Gender, archiving and recognition : naming and erasing in Nairobi's cityscape / Besi Brillian Muhonja

Kenya at 50 : Kenyan women reach some milestones / Jerono P. Rotich and Kipchumba Byron

Feminism unfinished : Kenya's feminist and women's rights movements, 1963-2013 / Brenda Nyandiko Sanya and Anne Namatsi Lutomia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137574626

1137574623

OCLC:

941892251

Publisher Number:

99969066233