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Literacy for and by the people: Kenya Kamirithu project.
(University of Nairobi, 1980)
This paper is an extract from Working Paper 340, entitled On Literacy Content, of the University of Nairobi's Institute of Development Studies. Community and development changes since the 1950s are briefly described. The ...
Ceramics and History in the Iron Age of North Cameroon
(University of Nairobi, 1989)
This study is based on the Iron Age ceramics of North Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria dating from the first to sixteenth century A.D.This is an area generally believed to have gone through myriad political, ...
Street life: a history of Nairobi's petty traders and their organizations
(1990-06)
Petty traders have been an integral part of
Nairobi's economy since the city was founded in 1899. At
first, Africans bartered fruit and vegetables while
mostly Asian traders introduced currency and sold flashy,
imported ...
The nature and impact of population policy in Kenya.
(1989)
This paper examined the existence and impact of population policy in Kenya. The findings show that Kenya has adopted an antinatalist population policy which also aims at promoting balanced population distribution. This ...
Public Domain in Patentability after the Uruguay Round: Developing Country Perspective with Specific Reference to Kenya
(1996)
Public domain is a central prerequisite for an effective patent system. A viable and vigorous public domain is indespensable to inventiveness. Inventors constantly "engage in the process of adapting, transforming, and ...
African Business Systems In A Globalising World
(University of Nairobi, 1999)
The failure of structural adjustment programmes to promote industrialisation in Africa may be at least partly explained by the fragmentation of African business systems. In Africa, the parastatal, foreign-dominated formal ...
A note on the role of african states in committee I of UNCLOS III
(Taylor & Francis, 1987)
This study assesses the role the African states played in the formulation of Part XI of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. It demonstrates that the clauses dealing with the seabed issues largely incorporated their ...
Educational expansion and economic decline: returns to education in Kenya, 1978-1995
(1999)
Educational expansion followed by economic decline in Kenya has been associated with a decline in
the social return to secondary education, conventionally calculated, from 20% in 1978 to 6% in 1995. Wage
benefits from ...
Institute for Development Studies, University College, Nairobi: supplementary note
(University of Nairobi, 1969-07)
This Institute was established in October 1965 for the purpose of initiating and directing research on socio-economic and cultural problems relating to the over-all development of Kenya in particular and East Africa in ...
The role of village headmen in rural development.
(University of Nairobi, 1991)
A study is reported concerning the factors that influenced the involvement of village headmen (ligurus) in rural development activities at village level in Kenya. The research was expected to inform a wider participatory ...