Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (review)
(2005)There are two main problems a scholar is likely to confront when writing on the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. The first is the challenge of crafting a study in a field that boasts a large historiography. Wading through ... -
The cosmopolitan tradition and fissures in segregationist town planning in Nairobi, 1915–23
(2012)This article argues that the attempts to institute segregation in Nairobi faltered because the process of urban land allocation, use and exchange and the legislation supporting this process did not support segregation. It ... -
strathmore law journal
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Land, conflict and livelihoods in the great lakes region testing policies to the limit
(2010)This publication looks at the relationship between land tenure, land use, and population movements, and conflict, defined here as large-scale, violent conflict. The concepts are illustrated with case studies by the African ... -
The Academy and its Disengagement from Popular Struggles in Kenya
(2010)In this article, the academy refers generally to tertiary institutions of learning including universities and polytechnics. But given the history of political engagements between tertiary education institutions and the ... -
Urban Poverty Research and Policy Evaluation on Street Children and their Families in Kenya
(1991)This study of the phenomenon of street children in Kenya gives a general historical background to the problem, followed by a brief survey of the scant literature available. The major part of the study includes a field ... -
Transformative Constitutionalism: Contextualizing Human Rights Application Under the Constitution of Kenya 2010
(2013)The enactment of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 heralded a new era in the Kenyan legal system particularly in the field of human rights which had experienced vast challenges in the past under the old Constitutional orders. ... -
Changing constitutional trends in Africa: Kenya's experience, 1963-1996
(1997)Constitutional law, being mainly concerned with the allocation and management of power, must ultimately derive its essential character from the elements of the social formation. In the case of Kenya, attempts in the 1960s ...
