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Book Synopsis Racing with Destiny - Raila Odinga by : Sam Okello
Download or read book Racing with Destiny - Raila Odinga written by Sam Okello and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raila Odinga has been racing with destiny all his life. Aware of his calling as the father of Kenya's democracy, he has faced detention, survived assassination attempts and set Kenya on a path to economic takeoff as Prime Minister in the Grand Coalition Government. The Finish-line now lies yonder. Will he wear a crown of glory as a victor in the race or will the forces of greed and tribal hegemony perpetuate their stranglehold on power?
Download or read book Politics of Poverty written by Ojijo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Obama and Kenya by : Matthew Carotenuto
Download or read book Obama and Kenya written by Matthew Carotenuto and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama’s ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya’s past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial “tribal” violence, the story of the United States president’s nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical portrayals of Africa. At the same time, Kenyan state officials have aimed to weave Obama into the contested narrative of Kenyan nationhood. Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular but inaccurate texts about Kenya’s history and Obama’s place in it as well as focused, thematic analyses of contemporary debates about ethnic politics, “tribal” identities, postcolonial governance, and U.S. African relations.
Book Synopsis African Independence by : Tukufu Zuberi
Download or read book African Independence written by Tukufu Zuberi and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Independence highlights the important role Africa has played in recent history and the significant role it will continue to play in the future of America and the globe. In a world where much of the power and wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very few people, this book looks at how the history of African independence has touched all people—from refugees to heads of state. Author Tukufu Zuberi weaves exclusive interview excerpts and stories from many Africans he has met with old newsreels, current news and reports, and research into a larger narrative that takes readers through key events in African history and shows their importance today. The book provides context for understanding connections between events in Africa and the world, such as Nigeria’s Boko Haram acts of war against the citizens of Nigeria and neighboring states, China’s rise as the main superpower with the largest financial connections to the African continent, and the so-called war against terrorism. Zuberi is also the director of the documentary African Independence, which has won awards including Best Director and Best Documentary at the San Diego Black Film Festival, Best Director at The People’s Film Festival, Best African Film at the San Diego Black Film Festival, and more. Both alone and together, the book and film offer a deeper understanding of Africa’s central role in world affairs.
Book Synopsis Political Succession in East Africa by : Chris Maina Peter
Download or read book Political Succession in East Africa written by Chris Maina Peter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Birth of a Nation by : Gerard Loughran
Download or read book Birth of a Nation written by Gerard Loughran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in Nairobi in 1960, three years before the birth of independent Kenya, the Nation group of newspapers grew up sharing the struggles of an infant nation, suffering the pain of its failures and rejoicing in its successes. Marking its 50th anniversary in 2010, the Nation looks back on its performance as the standard-bearer for journalistic integrity and how far it fell short or supported the loyalty demanded by its founding slogan 'The Truth shall make you free'. The Aga Khan was still a student at Harvard University when he decided that an honest and independent newspaper would be a crucial contribution to East Africa's peaceful transition to democracy. The "Sunday Nation" and "Daily Nation" were launched in 1960 when independence for Kenya was not far over the horizon. They quickly established a reputation for honesty and fair-mindedness, while shocking the colonial and settler establishment by calling for the release of the man who could become the nation's first prime minister, Jomo Kenyatta, and early negotiations for 'Uhuru'. The history of the 'Nation' papers and that of Kenya are closely intertwined; in the heat of its printing presses and philosophical struggles, that story is told here: from committed beginnings to its position today as East Africa's leading newspaper group.
Book Synopsis Sun-Baked Love by : Tsitsi Gladys Madzongwe
Download or read book Sun-Baked Love written by Tsitsi Gladys Madzongwe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Politicized Ethnicity by : Anke Weber
Download or read book Politicized Ethnicity written by Anke Weber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a rigorous comparative historical analysis of Kenya, Tanzania, Bolivia, Peru, and the United States to demonstrate how colonial administrative rule, access to resources, nation building and language policies, as well as political entrepreneurs contribute to the politicization of ethnicity.
Book Synopsis Democracy in the South by : Brendan M. Howe
Download or read book Democracy in the South written by Brendan M. Howe and published by UN. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in the South is the first international collaboration that draws attention to the complex problems of democratic consolidation across the majority world. Nine case studies, three each from Africa, Latin America and Asia, shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by democratizing countries, mostly from the perspective of emerging theorists working in their home countries.--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Kenya, Bridging Ethnic Divides by : Wairimu Nderitu
Download or read book Kenya, Bridging Ethnic Divides written by Wairimu Nderitu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) was set up to facilitate and promote equality of opportunity, good relations, harmony and peaceful coexistence between persons of the different ethnic and racial communities of Kenya, and to advise the Government on all aspects thereof after the violence that followed the December 2007 elections. In Kenya, Bridging Ethnic Divides: A Commissioners Experience on Cohesion and Integration, Commissioner Alice Wairimu Nderitu looks behind the scenes at the NCICs efforts to ensure peaceful co-existence. Such as, working with elders, mediating confidentially between political leaders at the highest levels and co-founding and working as first Co-Chair of Uwiano Platform for Peace, a conflict prevention agency largely credited with leading efforts in ensuring peaceful processes during the 2010 Constitutional referendum and 2013 General elections. The book tells of NCICs efforts in grappling with the seemingly intractable problem of managing the negative consequence of ethnic differences on questions such as: Why is Kenya so ethnically polarised? Why is an ethnic group the key defining factor in Kenyan politics? What hope is there for an inclusive Kenya? The book shows that positive policies and intra- and inter-ethnic spaces can be used to counter negative influences that lead to fear, exclusion and violence. The diversity of Kenyas ethnicities and races need not be a pretext for conflict, but a source of truly national identity. It proves that dialogue on understanding differences and commonalities leads to improved relationships and understanding on societal dynamics. This in turn, contributes to preventing and transforming conflicts through appropriate inclusion policies, identifying entry points for change as well as opportunities to tackle the norms and behaviours that underpin structural disparities.
Book Synopsis Ethnicity, Nationhood, and Pluralism by : Yash P. Ghai
Download or read book Ethnicity, Nationhood, and Pluralism written by Yash P. Ghai and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Riddle of Barack Obama by : Avner Falk
Download or read book The Riddle of Barack Obama written by Avner Falk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally noted clinical psychologist offers readers the first psychological biography of Barack Obama. The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography is the first complete psychological biography of President Barack Obama written by a professional clinical psychologist. Covering Obama's life to date, as well as the lives of his parents, grandparents, and other ancestors, this fascinating volume illuminates the personal, professional, political, emotional, intellectual, and creative aspects of Obama's personality, as well as the motives—conscious and unconscious—for his beliefs and actions. Dr. Avner Falk draws on hundreds of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles, interviews, investigative reports, and more, using psychoanalytic models developed by Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Peter Blos, Heinz Kohut, and Schiffer to probe Obama's psychological development. Examining every facet of the president's biography, he delves into his earliest feelings of abandonment and helplessness, his inner conflicts, his protective relationship with his mother, his ambivalent identification with his father, and his quest for identity. Perhaps most intriguingly, Dr. Falk explores the psychological origins of Obama's "fierce ambitions" and the ingredients of his charisma.
Download or read book Kenya written by Godwin R. Murunga and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve around constitutional reforms. Written by a gathering of eminent specialists, this highly original volume interrogates the roots and impact of the 2010 constitution. It explains why reforms were blocked in the past but were successful this time around, and explores the scope for their implementation in the face of continued resistance by powerful groups. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the Kenyan experience carries significance well past its borders, speaking to debates surrounding social justice and national cohesion across the African continent and beyond.
Book Synopsis A Giant Tree has Fallen by : Seifudein Adem
Download or read book A Giant Tree has Fallen written by Seifudein Adem and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book memorialising the life and work of Ali Alamin Mazrui comprises more than 130 tributes written by people ranging from heads of state to journalists. Presented here are those tributes for which copyright permissions were received from among the hundreds that appeared online and print. In preparing this book, it was made very clear that, unlike other books of tributes to great men and women, there would be no segmentation of the sections based on writers and speakers positions in life. Instead, it was decided that the tributes be presented in alphabetical order based on writers and speakers last names. The decision hinged on the fact that Mazur would not have apposed any segmentation of people by class, race, ethnicity and gender etc. Nonetheless, out of great respect for Mazurs immediate family members, their tributes are presented first, followed by those from his global family members. Also included at the beginning of the book are three chapters that comprise an introductory essay, a brief biography of Mazur, and an essay on metaphorical-linguistic analysis of the tributes that follow. The book also has a preface by the coeditors and a forward by Salim Ahmed Salim, the former Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania and Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now known as the Africa Union. Dr. Salim, who served as the Secretary-General of the OAU from 1989 to 2001, was Mazuris friend and contemporary. Mazruri once described Salim as Mr Africa and the first real postcolonial Secretary-General of the OAU.
Book Synopsis Tensions and Reversals in Democratic Transitions by : Karuti Kanyinga
Download or read book Tensions and Reversals in Democratic Transitions written by Karuti Kanyinga and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Luo Nation Rising written by Sam Okello and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bio Sam Okello is a best-selling author. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his best friend, Hellen, and their two rambunctious sons, Garrie and Prince Sam Okello Jr. Synopsis Luo Nation Rising is a response to a conversation I had with Uncle Paul Oyoyo under the cool shade of a mango tree in Yimbo Usenge. On that sizzling December afternoon, the miffed Oyoyo wanted to know why the book Luo Kitgi Gi Timbegi remained the most authoritative guide on Luo ways in spite of the passage of time-which had rendered most cultural practices irrelevant and unhelpful. But was Uncle Paul really right? Reading Luo Kitgi Gi Timbegi afresh, I was blindsided by the enormous burden Luos of the past had to endure to live in harmony with the Ruoth, Ogayi, Joyath, Jonawi, Jondagla and other crazy folks in the community . Indeed, the Luo were in a situation worse than the Israelites under the punishing Levitical Laws and Islamic women and the dominant Sharia. In this riveting, politically-incorrect volume, I go to war with cultural practices that continue to hinder the emergence of a unified Luo Nation and call on the community to go back to the path charted by Ker Paul Mboya, Ker Joel Omer, Pastor Isaac Okeyo and Jaduong Joshua Rume. The hour of Luo greatness has come!
Download or read book Her Excellency written by Sam Okello and published by Sahel Books Inc.. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mawai Kabuku has waited for years to become president of Kenya, but as hes about to realize this lifelong dream, Kenyans are suddenly confronted with the reality that Kabukus wife is a cold-blooded devil--and he has a second wife nobody knew about. The two formidable women jostle for influence in a war of the wives.
