Eastern Socialist Countries Scholarships To Kenyans, Aeroflot And The Cold War Conflict, 1959-1970
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Date
2016Author
Onyango, Sungu Fred
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research was about the Kenyan students who went to study at the Socialist eastern and
central European universiies from1959 to 1970, as Kenya was nearing her independence. The
programme continued after independence. The programme was referred to as the Aeroflot
scholarships programme and the discrimination some of the graduates faced upon their return to
Kenya has been discussed. The main objective of the study was to research on why the the
prospective students had to face difficulty by trekking along the way, simply because the then
colonial government would not entertain such moves to go for studies in the communist east. The
work also looked at the interplay of the cold war in the provision of the scholarships, given that a
similar programme.otherwise referred to as Airlift, which took students to the west, in America.
This work had two hypotheses one was that, the two scholarship programmes were not only out
of humanitarian concern to Kenyans but were also a furtherance of competing political
hegemony of western and eastern blocs and that the two scholarship programmes as supported by
the eastern bloc and the capitalist west, was clear manifestations of the Cold War conflict in
Kenyan. On methodology the work chose qualitative research method.On sampling the work
used snow balling method, semi structured interview (free style) was used.This method is best
for study like this one, because the questions flow is controlled by the researcher. This method
allowed the work to get an in depth response from the respondents.
The findings were that the two scholarships were meant to advance the supper powers preferd
ideologies and that the colonial government never wanted anything to do with communism to
come to kenya
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University Of Nairobi
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