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The struggle for sustainable land management and democratic development in Kenya: a history of greed and grievances
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
This chapter draws attention to the centrality of land to political struggles in Kenya and shows how the tension in the land question are rooted in the colonial period and its attempts to polarize land relations around ...
Local coping strategies in Machakos District, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1992)
Local coping strategies of Kenya's Machakos District are examined. The main objective is to identify and analyse the coping strategies that people have adopted in view of development problems in the District. Machakos is ...
Maternal and Perinatal Conditions
(World Bank, 2006)
An estimated 210 million women become pregnant each year, and close to 60 million of these pregnancies end with the death of the mother (≈500,000) or the baby or as abortions. This chapter focuses on the adverse events of ...
Men who have sex with men in Kisumu, Kenya: support group membership and knowledge of HIV-risk factors.
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Men who have sex with men are an important yet marginalised population for HIV prevention in Africa. We conducted a two-phase study (individual qualitative interviews and a survey) of men who have sex with men, aged 18-34 ...
Medicinal plants of East Africa
(East African Literature Bureau, 1976-03)
This book is the result of ten years of research work in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda by the author. Its aims are to supplement the already published book entitled Poisonous Plants of East Africa and to try to answer the ...
Civil Society And Transition Politics In Kenya: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives
(African Research and Resource Forum(ARRF, 2009)
This paper attempts to shed insights into the contribution of civil society to the politics
of transition in Kenya. The paper highlights some of the actual contributions made
by civil society to the politics of transition ...
The Impact of India-Kenya Trade Relations on the Kenya Garment Industry
(2011)
The rapid growth and increased openness of the Indian economy, which accelerated
sharply at the beginning of the 1990s, leaves no doubt about the country's increasing
importance on the global stage