Factors Influencing Education and Age at First Marriage in an Arid Region: The Case of the Borana of Marsabit district, Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Nyamongo, Isaac K
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-27T06:49:57Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-27T06:49:57Z
dc.date.issued	2000-04
dc.identifier.citation	African Study Monographs Vol.21,No.2,p.55-65,April 2012	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11295/40826
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/40826
dc.description.abstract	The role of education in development is widely recognized in many countries. However, the value placed on formal education differs from one community to the next. In this paper I argue that among the Borana pastoralists of Marsabit District, Kenya, the value of formal education is based on wage-labor opportunities. High value placed on women's household labor and low accessibility to non-household employment places differential pressure on the education of Borana children. This leads to a higher dropout rate from school and earlier marriage for female than for the male children.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Parity	en
dc.subject	Marriage	en
dc.subject	Education	en
dc.subject	Pastoralism	en
dc.subject	Borana	en
dc.title	Factors Influencing Education and Age at First Marriage in an Arid Region: The Case of the Borana of Marsabit district, Kenya	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Institute of African Studies	en