Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Political Liberalisation or Democratic Transition: African Perspectives
(1999)The process of political liberalization or democratic transition in Africa, though incomplete, has been phenomenal. Its varied ways of manifestation have generated extensive intellectual interests. Researchers have been ... -
Democracy and Development in Africa.
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Spontaneous or premeditated?: Post-Election Violence in Kenya
(2011)This Discussion Paper examines the high levels of post-electoral violence that followed the 2007 Kenyan elections. While noting that the conflict was triggered by the incumbent party’s abuse of the electoral process with ... -
Assessing the role of political parties in democratization in Kenya: the case of 2013 general elections
(2013)Nothing in the world will take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the ... -
Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links Between African and Black Studies
(2008)Black identity and nationalism in the civil rights era were forged through trans- Atlantic and Pan-African solidarity. Both African and African-American intellectuals and institutions played key roles in Pan-African ... -
Spatio-temporal characteristics and the distribution of Older Persons in Lamu and Turkana districts in Kenya
(2014)This paper emanates from a study on population ageing in rural and urban Kenya conducted by the author in 20081. Its thrust lies on the need to understand the roles, if at all, of spatial and temporal factors in explaining ... -
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822 (review)
(2001)Two statements about African slavery briefly captured the attention of Africanists in the year 2000. The first, contained in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Wonders of the African World, explicitly blamed Africans for the heinous ... -
Introduction
(2008)This introductory article explains the origins of this special issue initiative in the work of a select number of African graduate students in the US. It locates the different articles included in the volume in the general ...
