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This book is a result of public dialogue forums in pursuit of accountable and transparent governance in Kenya organized by Twaweza Communications with the support of Ford Foundation. From the convenings it was evident that the stability of Kenya will be driven by the extent to which citizens feel fully included in the development agenda. Quite often, political leaders view the role of citizens in governance as restricted primarily to their participation in the electoral process. This narrow view has led to arrogance and total disregard of citizens after poll results are announced. Under the ne

Culture, gender inequality and women's rights in the Great Lakes /Kimani Njogu & Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui --Disability rhetorics and identity in Kenya /Mbugua Wa-Mungai --"Lemme do m'thing" : objective possibilities for social meaning and re-visioning youth identity through pop-music /Michael Wainaina --Sheng as a youth identity marker : reality or misconception? /Nathan Oyori Ogechi --Me, my Kenya and I /Charles A. Matathia --Performing identity in Kiswahili literature /Richard Makhanu Wafula --Culture, religion, and identity /Mary N. Getui --Circulation of media texts and identity (de)constructions in the post-colony /Christopher Odhiambo Joseph --Identity, sports, and leisure in contemporary Kenyan society /Mwangi Peter Wanderi --Slaying settler Williams : crafting identity in Ngugi's Matigari /Garnette Oluoch-Olunya --The Talai : the end of a dynasty /Bill Rutto --Sing me a life : music as a people's identity /Emily Achieng' Akuno.

Using Kenya as a case-study to mirror other African countries this book interrogates the phenomenon of leadership, within and without the political domain.

This book brings together multiple voices and positions from Africa. These voices, assembled during a 2003 Soap Summit held in Nairobi, are powerful and varied and suggest ways in which issues of health could be tackled in an entertaining manner. The summit organised by Population Communications International - Africa. highlighted the critical role that the arts can play in ensuring better health, especially among the youth. It resulted from the recognition that young people in Africa are faced with a myriad of problems and complications as they struggle to deal with growth and identity formation, within a globalising social and economic setup. They are in dire need of information on their own sexuality and how to deal with it and are getting conflicting signals from the mass media, as well as their immediate environment. The youth are under intense pressure from their peers to engage in premarital sex, which is in most cases unprotected. The HIV/AIDS epidemic presents frightening challenges and all health programs should look for ways of dealing with it. Of great to concern is the vulnerability of women and girls in Africa due to rising poverty, gender violence, lack of access to youth-friendly reproductive health facilities, and lack of a conducive infrastructure especially in informal settlements and in the rural areas. The myriad problems presented by the pandemic require a multi-sectoral approach. This book brings together a number of strategies being undertaken in Africa that combine entertainment and education in a positive way. The voices from the Soap Summit are interspersed with those of the Editor to create a dialogue on entertainment-education that contributes to the discussion on the way social change might be undertaken.

A history of electoral violence and human rights violationsExplaining political violence in Kenya; Legitimacy of State institutions; A culture of impunity; Dealing with electoral-related violations; Notes; References; The Circus Comes to Town: Performance, Religion and Exchange in Political Party Campaigns; From the Street Notebook; Enter the politics of money; Romance sweeps into the theatre of the absurd; Speech acts and allied dances in the street; The power of prayer, praying for power; "Kuuza sura, [ha]wataki kuuza sera": What didn't they sell?!; Conclusion; Notes; References.

Art, Culture and Society Vol 1 is the first in a series of books to be published by Twaweza Communications on the relationship between art and society, with special reference to Kenya. It is part of a cultural leadership initiative being undertaken by the organization through a reexamination of the arts as they are produced and studied. This volume brings together important reflections on the arts and is a major step in encouraging dialogue on the relationship between creativity and the human condition in the region. Significantly, it creates a space for university-based academics to engage in dialogue with artists and writers based outside institutions of higher learning. The conversations will bridge the gap between the two domains for knowledge production and enrich creative enterprise in Kenya, in theory and practice. As the essays in this collection show, the present global situation demands a way to conceptualise and theorise an ever growing cultural interconnectedness, sometimes manifested in art; and interconnectedness that draws from a myriad of cultures and experiences. Through the bridges of contact and cultural exchange distant images are mediated and brought closer to us. They are reinterpreted and modified. In the final analysis, culture is shown to be an important aspect of human creativity but separateness and boundedness is contested. Instead, culture is shown to be malleable and fluid. The essays bring in a new freshness to our reading of the creative arts coming out of Kenya.

In most of Africa, there is evidence of politicised inter-ethnic rivalry and ethnic mobilisation to acquire, maintain or monopolise power as competition for resources intensify. This volume demonstrates how ethnic diversity can be managed at a number of levels in order to improve the lives of citizens. As the contributors show, ethnicity as an identity is fluid and malleable. It can be deconstructed in order to reduce its saliency. Evidently, strong ethnic affliation has also been viewed as a major barrier to human and economic development although ethnically bound welfare organisations do influence the economic and social life of citizens especially in the rural areas, In most of Africa, it is through ethnic identification that competition for influence in the state and in the allocation of resources becomes apparent. Occasionally, governments have sought to address this challenge through ethnic and regional balancing in political appointments. But this does not always work. Drawing on experiences from Eastern Africa and beyond, the contributors discuss how ethnic diversity can be a resource for the region.

Part One: Youth Presence in National Agenda. - Chapter One: Youth As Leaders in Kenya: Transforming Society By Building Bridges. - Chapter Two: Perspectives on Youth Policies in Kenya. - Chapter Three: Socio-Economic Status of Youth in Kenya: Implications for Peaceful Elections. - Chapter Four: Opportunities and Challenges for Participation of Young People in the Electoral Process. - Part Two: Youth and Peaceful Elections. - Chapter Five: Economic Implications of Peaceful and Fair General Elections in Kenya. - Chapter Six: Social Implications of Peaceful and Fair General Elections in Kenya. - Chapter Seven: Role of Political Parties in Ensuring Peaceful and Fair Elections. - Part Three: Youth, Leadership and Peace Building. - Chapter Eight: National Peace and Stability: The Role of Kenyans in the Diaspora. - Chapter Nine: Children of the Post-Colony and Violence: Starting from the Hearth. - Chapter Ten: The Role of Youth in Trans-local Peace building among Pastoralist Communities in Northwestern Kenya

This book is a result of public dialogue forums in pursuit of accountable and transparent governance in Kenya organized by Twaweza Communications with the support of Ford Foundation. From the convenings it was evident that the stability of Kenya will be driven by the extent to which citizens feel fully included in the development agenda. Quite often, political leaders view the role of citizens in governance as restricted primarily to their participation in the electoral process. This narrow view has led to arrogance and total disregard of citizens after poll results are announced. Under the ne.

Over the last 20 years, the power of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as enablers and drivers of sustainable development has been broadly recognised. They are viewed as critical to social cohesion, social and economic transformation, and political stability.
For this reason, it is important to explore and analyse what kind of CCIs supporting strategies, programmes and projects are in place in Sub-Saharan Africa, how they are working and their practical impacts. Furthermore, to deeply understand these dynamics and be able to provide accurate recommendations, this research looked not only at the practical cases of programmes developed multilaterally by the EU but also those developed individually by European countries' cultural institutions. The authors show how, where and why CCIs programmes are implemented and put forward a case for more sustainable projects with a stronger focus on local ownership.