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Planting the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018-10-25)
This concluding chapter pursues a deeper understanding of actions taken by Wangari Maathai to maintain spiritual connections between everyday life and the environment. We do so by explaining how traditional spiritual beliefs ...
Women in Colonial East Africa
(Springer, 2021)
This chapter provides a contextual analysis of the role and place of women in colonial East Africa. Several factors including land, labor, agriculture, education, trade, politics, nationalism, and struggle for liberation ...
10 Securitization of COVID-19 and the Imagination of Post-COVID-19 Burial Ceremonies in Kenya and Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)
The years 2020 and 2021 will go down in history as the most tragic period in the second decade of the new millennium as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in death and untold suffering the world over (Sibanda ...
3 Sitting on a Grave
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)
COVID-19 in Kenya necessitated an enforcement of Ministry of Health (MOH) burial guidelines. These were met with resistance at various levels, even as the State demanded that these guidelines be unilaterally enforced. After ...
Introduction: Religion and Inequality in Africa
(Bloomsbury, 2023-01-12)
Alternative Media and Ethnic Politics in Kenya
(Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2023-08-23)
The history of the use of alternative media in Kenya’s politics shows evidence that it was in use in 2007, when the country came into the brink of a genocide; and, prominently in use, in the recent 2022 general elections. ...
Ubuntu, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa: Reflections on the Promises and Challenges of a Popular Concept
(Springer International Publishing, 2023-10-18)
Faced with the constant criticism that “nothing good can come out of Africa,” many African scholars and peace activists, as well those from other parts of the world, have identified Ubuntu and presented it as one of Africa’s ...