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The legacy of the white highlands: Land rights, ethnicity and the post-2007 election violence in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)
A violent conflict engulfed Kenya after a flawed and disputed presidential election result in December 2007. Before then, Kenya was considered an icon, a bastion of political stability and economic prosperity in Africa. ...
Courting genocide: Populism, ethno-nationalism and the informalisation of violence in Kenya's 2008 post-election crisis
(2009)
Kenya was already on the precipice long before the disputed 27 December 2007 election, which sparked the cataclysmic post-election violence that brought one of Africa's most promising democracies to the brink of state ...
Persistence of Features of Traditional Healing in the Churches in Africa: The Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya
(2009-12)
One of the attractions of new converts from mainline churches to the African
Instituted Churches (AICs) is faith healing. Healing understood in its wider sense as
the restoration of the wholeness of life is not new to ...
School knowledge and its relevance to everyday life in rural Western Kenya
(2006)
This article examines the relevance of school knowledge in the context of everyday life using ethnographic data collected among primary schoolchildren and adults in rural western Kenya. Using the concept of the educated ...
An Overview of structural Adjustment programmes in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Structural Adjustment Programmes may be defined as a set of policy changes or
reforms, which combine short-run stabilization measures and longer-run adjustment
measures. In particular, the measures consist of the following ...
Changing Household Composition and Food Security among the Elderly Caretakers in Rural Western Kenya
(Springer US, 2009)
A descriptive cross-sectional study including quantitative and qualitative methods was carried out in rural western Kenya to examine household composition and food security among the elderly caretakers. The findings indicate ...