For many years, Kenya gave the impression of a relatively stable nation-state within the turbulent sub-Saharan Africa and a suitable hub from which the international community extends its missions to parts of Africa such as the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, DR Con…
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Exploring the conditions in which African religious movements emerged during the colonial period or in the post-colonial period has been a popular course of study. Our understanding of religious movements has been largely limited to the conditions which galvanized them. We must …
The East African soldiers (askaris) who served in Britain's colonial army (the King's African Rifles) occupied an uncertain place in colonial society. Britain needed African servicemen to maintain its authority, and endeavored to ensure their reliability through a variety of coe…
Network concepts are increasingly viewed as offering new approaches to the analysis of organizations, and the understanding of policy processes. In general, the literature on network structures and processes within public administration is quite positive. However, this mode of o…
The lack of favorable outcomes produced by recent attempts at counterinsurgency by Western countries shows that the importance of uncovering a more effective approach for conducting external counterinsurgency operations cannot be downplayed. In an attempt to discover what this a…
This study examines the phenomenon of brain drain from the African countries to the U.S., with focus on Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. The study has a specific two-fold objective: (i) to determine the extent of economic burden entailed by brain drain from these sub-Saharan countries…
The agro-pastoral Kuria people of East Africa, whose population straddles the border between Tanzania and Kenya, are actively engaged in an illicit livestock trade in which cattle stolen in Tanzania are run across the border for cash sale in neighboring Kenya, which is a more af…
Is the writer's role simply to create art for art's sake or do writers have to utilize their talents for the good of society. Ngugi wa Thiongo of Kenya and Ousmane Sembene of Senegal, like many other African writers, are of the opinion that in a society such as the one in which …
This study deals with the works of Achebe and Ngugi who use their literary works to reflect the history of their societies. Its core argument is that the writer's view of the world, however affected by the creative process, represents at one level a confrontation with the realit…
The dissertation examines the transmission of cultural values in a selection of African women's texts, written in English and published between 1966 and 1986. Focusing on a range of works by Kenyan, Nigerian and South African women, the study explores modes of memory and examine…
Cette étude a pour objectif l'examen, l'analyse et la classification des variétés linguistiques parlées en Somalie et groupées autour du vocable «somali». Ce vocable désigne une unité linguistique, une «langue», le somali, parlé principalement en Somalie, et dans les pays limitr…
East African Plio-Pleistocene lithic assemblages from the 2.5–1.3 Ma period are highly variable in terms of their character and context. Traditionally, this variability has been described and interpreted according to typologically based conceptual frameworks which serve to defin…
The refugee situation has reached alarming proportions in Kenya. Though there have been historical and sociological studies focusing on the problem, a biblical theological reflection has not been done. This work will provide a biblical theological response to the problem based o…
This thesis is an investigation of the democratization process gaining momentum in sub-Saharan Africa. Following independence in the 1950's and 60's, many states were ruled by undemocratic military or single-party regimes; however, between 1989 and 1991, strikes and widespread p…
Conflicts in Africa are destabilizing the continent, thus hampering any efforts to achieve sustainable development. Post-Cold War conflicts are mainly internal and result in mass migrations of refugees into neighboring states that are underdeveloped and politically unstable. In …
This dissertation examines the tribulations and the futures of radical national literary culture as a vehicle of freedom in the postcolonial South within the general context of the vicissitudes of the postcolonial nation-state in contemporary neocolonial globalisation. In philos…
Since the eighth century, the East African coast was part of the Indian Ocean system of economic and cultural exchange. The identity of the coastal people was, and still is, comprised of an ambiguous and shifting mix of Arab and African, ex-slave and freeborn. Controversy has su…
This dissertation research focuses on understanding climate variability in the Indian Ocean using bomb produced radiocarbon in coral samples in order to understand water mass mixing processes in the equatorial Indian Ocean. I present accelerator mass spectrometric (AMS) measurem…
Scope and method of study. The goal of this study is to investigate the roles of market structure and human capital in developing countries' (DC's) ability to expand exports of processed agricultural goods. The study provides three separate theoretical and empirical analyses bas…