Maurice Amutabi

The Technical University of Kenya · Centre for Science and Technology Studies

This chapter seeks to examine the socialization of White Settlers in colonial Kenya. The chapter demonstrates that the Rift Valley was the epicenter of white activities in the so-called White Highlands. There were all kinds of events that shaped the colonial project. The dominant characters in the project resided in the Rift Valley, where they enga...

This chapter examines the migration and settlement of Cushites who occupy vast parts of northern and parts of southern Kenya. Cushites belong to the cattle complex corridor of Africa, which stretches from Somalia in the East to Senegal in the West. The Cushites have not received adequate attention among historians. There are very few studies on the...

The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History is an attempt to address a wide range of themes and ideas in one volume covering Kenyan history in its multiple manifestations including social, cultural, economic, and political thematic areas. We contend that the book is pioneering in many ways because it seeks to capture Kenyan history in a comprehensive w...

Africa and the Outside World Editor: Prof. Maurice N. Amutabi, PhD Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-57-4 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Kenya’s Engagement with the outside Wo...

How Africa Has Turned Around Editor: Maurice N. Amutabi Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-53-6 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 E-Learning or Technology Enabled Learning-The Dichotomy to Developing Countries By Tafadzwa Mudondo...

Coping with COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa and Beyond Editors: Maurice N. Amutabi and Linnet Hamasi Henry Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-56-7 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Globalization and Girls’ Education in Africa: Emergi...

New Realities in Africa Editor: P rof. Maurice N. Amutabi, PhD Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-54-3 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Effects of Maintaining Social Distancing Rule on Travel Intentions during Covid-19: A Case of...

New Trends of Global Influences in Africa Editor: Maurice N. Amutabi Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-55-0 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Predatory Globalization in Ngugi wa Thiong’o Petals of Blood By Jairus Omuteche 8 Chap...

Giant Steps in the Development of Africa Editors: Maurice N. Amutabi and Dr. Magdalene Ndeto Bore Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-51-2 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Voice, Agency, and Silences in Global and African Developme...

African Renewal Editor: Maurice N. Amutabi Published by the Centre for Democracy, Research and Development (CEDRED), Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-505 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction By Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Analysing the Role of Social Media Platforms in Public Awareness of the...

New Zeal in Africa’s Development Editor: Maurice N. Amutabi and Prof. (Eng.) Abel N. Mayaka Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-50-5 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi and Prof. (Eng.) Abel Mayaka 1 Chapter 1 Effects of COVID-19 Pand...

Global Dynamics in Africa Editors: Maurice N. Amutabi and Dr. Linnet Hamasi Published by CEDRED Publications, Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-53-6 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 The Medical Male Circumcision Practice as a Global Health Strategy for HIV and A...

African Renewal Editor: Maurice N. Amutabi Published by the Centre for Democracy, Research and Development (CEDRED), Nairobi, Kenya ISBN 978-9966-116-505 Table of Contents Dedication ii Copyright iii Acknowledgement iv Introduction By Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 1 Chapter 1 Analysing the Role of Social Media Platforms in Public Awareness of the...

I am an internal and external examiner for over 12 universities in Africa and when I attend some of the masters and doctoral viva voces (oral examinations or defences), I always leave the venues very annoyed and disappointed with our system in African universities. It always makes me realize why in Africa we produce less than 2% of doctoral degrees...

The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) under the 2-6-3-3 system of education in Kenya was unveiled in 2017 to replace the 8-4-4 system of education which has served Kenya for 32 years. The introduction of 2-6-3-3 has received a lot of attention and provides an opportunity for us to reflect on the end of an Era in Kenya's Education where ranking and...

Discourses on development dynamics in Africa are often emotional and some lacking in research and grounded analysis, a lacuna which this book has addressed. This book Discourses on Sustainable Development in Africa contains chapters dealing with development issues covering many parts of the continent, on how the whole notion of development has been...

There is no doubt that the African continent is very dynamic and equipped with great potential for sustainable development. Many African countries are aware that infrastructure improvement is important for takeoff and faster economic growth as well as alleviation of poverty, and that is why many of them have embarked on massive infrastructure enhan...

Affirmative action has been incorporated in many constitutions in African countries in order to address gaps in development based on regions, gender, ethnicity and religion, disability, language, among others. This book Diversity and Sustainable Development in Africa seeks to address academic lacuna in literature in Africa on diversity issues. The...

Politics play an important role in development. Dynamics of politics influence other super structures such as economics, social realm and culture. The removal of Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe and capitulation of Eduardo dos Santos in Angola, among others, have brought back hope to Africa in ways never thought possible few decades ago. Some c...

Recent buzzwords such as artificial intelligence, cloud skills, export of skills and globalization have made it possible for many countries to revisit their education curricular to reflect changing realities. This book, Education and Sustainable Development in Africa represents the actual, the real and the immediate, about development trends in edu...

Gender And Gender studies have not received great attention in Africa as has been the case in other parts of the world. There is still shortage of relevant books and research materials on gender in Africa, and students and staff in African Universities are made to do with very few materials. This book Gender and Sustainable Development in Africa se...

Africa is urbanizing rapidly and this is bringing about massive changes in both urban and rural areas. Increased urbanization is changing voting patterns on the continent and reducing ethnic-based political mobilization and creating new forms of political alliances. There is new demographic shift largely due to improvement in the medical sphere, le...

African Renaissance Revisited is a book which everyone interested in development agenda of Africa must have. It is a collection of well researched and well written, peer reviewed articles that examine development in Africa from the past to the present. The chapters are insightful and illuminate various issues germane to Africa's development. The ch...

The book discusses development trends in Africa

Africa’s New Deal provides the reader with opportunity to interact with fresh research from many parts of the world, on how Africa’s is negotiating with interest in its resources. Africa has a lot of resources, some of which hold great strategic importance in global development. There seems to be a new realization on how to organize these resources...

Diaries of Development in Africa is a collection of well researched and well written, peer reviewed articles that examine development in Africa using different approaches. The chapters explain the changes that have taken place on the continent with many internal and external trends shaping development in ways never imagined before. The chapters sho...

Recent trends in education in Africa are causing ripples in other sectors. The current clamour for lifelong learning in many African countries has called for establishment of national qualification frameworks (NQFs) in order to recognise and embrace other forms of learning and training. This book Education in Contemporary Africa contains chapters o...

In the past ten years, the world has been witnessing new order based on new economic, social, cultural, political and environmental realities such as those brought about by climate change and emergence of new economic powers. Africa has not been left behind in this new world order. This book, New Order in Africa contains insightful, peer reviewed c...

Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and the end of an Era in Kenya’s Education Sector and Implications for Development: Some Empirical Reflections By Maurice N. Amutabi, PhD E-mail: amutabi@gmail.com Abstract The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) under the 2-6-3-3 system of education in Kenya was unveiled in 2017 to replace the 8-4-4 system of educat...

Africa has been willing and unwilling recipient of many models of development, some of which have been top down while others have been bottom up. Many of these models have been developed outside Africa while others have been generated largely from within the continent. This book Development from below and above in Africa examines some attempts of A...

Gambling is on the rise in Kenya. There have been fears that Kenya is becoming a nation of gamblers. On May 2, 2017 Sportpesa, a sports betting firm in Kenya declared 28 year old Samuel Abisai the winner of Kenya Shillings 221 million jackpot, through betting. The story made national headlines and Abisai was celebrated and invited to many TV and ra...

I have developed and postulated the theory of affinity and proximity based on observation and my own experiences as a citizen, scholar and public intellectual. The theory is predicated on the recurrence of economic and political dualities that we see in all our neighborhoods, in both urban and rural areas and their attendant dependency, tranquility...

In the past twenty years, Kenya has witnessed an explosion of many private television stations and numerous FM radio stations, creating a cacophony of sounds, similar to the biblical Tower of Babel. Kenya's media have certainly played a substantial role in mediating relationships between citizens and state, in shaping the democratic dispensation in...

In African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–50, Tabitha Kanogo utilizes archival sources and interviews to interrogate political and sociocultural structures and practices that shaped and controlled women's lives in colonial Kenya. She shows how colonial administration, missionaries, and indigenous customs variously used clitoridectomy, dowry, mar...

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Incl. bibl., abstract. This paper analyses the politicization of decision making in the education sector in Kenya since independence in 1963, to 2000. Utilizing a catalogue of major political decisions that have influenced trends and patterns of educational growth and policy formulation in Kenya, I demonstrate how such decisions have interfered in...

Cet article a trois buts: se pencher sur les crises qui ont accablé les universités publiques du Kenya sur une période de trente ans à partir des années 1970, et qui se sont intensifiées dans les années 1980 et 1990; examiner l'impact des manifestations et de l'activisme étudiants portant sur la politique en matière d'éducation; enfin, d'examiner l...

The aim of this article is threefold: to interrogate the crises that have afflicted public universities in Kenya over a period of thirty years, starting in the 1970s and intensifying in the 1980s and 1990s; to examine the impact of student activism and protest on education policy; and to investigate the role of current and former university student...

Crisis and Student Protest in Universities in Kenya: Examining the Role of Students in National Leadership and the Democratization Process Volume 45, Issue 2 (African Universities in Crisis and the Promotion of a Democratic Culture) September 2002 , pp. 157-177 Maurice N. Amutabi Abstract The aim of this article is threefold: to interrogate th...

This is a book review by Maurice Amutabi Reviewed Work(s): Resource Conflict in the Horn of Africa by John Markakis Review by: Maurice N. Amutabi Source: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines , 2001, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2001), pp. 398-400