dc.contributor.author | Ngesa, Pamela O | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-08T07:47:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-04-08T07:47:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ngesa, P. O. (2014). African Women Commuter Traders in Nairobi in the First Decade after World War 1: 1919-1929. Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya, 6(1), 63-80. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tp.v6i1.6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ajol.info/index.php/tp/article/view/113645 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/81938 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article investigates African women commuter trading activities in Nairobi in the first
decade after World War One. Its findings derive mainly from a research project carried out in
1989-1996. The major source of data for the study was oral interviews with the women who
traded in Nairobi during the years under study, as well as with eyewitnesses to their trading
activities. Sampling of such respondents employed the purposive technique because of its
ability to deal with the problem of an incomplete population frame by conveniently drawing
the required study sample from available resources. The research drew other data from library
and archival sources, especially to corroborate the oral evidence. However, this article utilises
additional archival and library data to achieve greater comprehensiveness than was attained in
the earlier version. The article therefore makes an important intellectual contribution to the
ongoing debate on the social, political and economic role and impact of African women’s
economic activities such as commodity trade in African towns. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.subject | Commuter traders, pre-colonial, colonial, money economy, socio-economic differentiation | en_US |
dc.title | African women commuter traders in Nairobi in the first decade after world war 1: 1919-1929 | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.material | en_US | en_US |