Kenyan Student Airlifts To America 1959 1961

Author : Stephens, Robert F.
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966259301

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Kenyan Student Airlifts to America 1959-1961 by Stephens, Robert F. Pdf

What did it take to get hundreds of Kenyan students, thirsting for higher education, into US colleges in the late 1950s and early 1960s? It took perseverance, help from countless people, and the overwhelming desire of the students themselves. This is an engaging and insightful book about an important and ignored slice of history. When we think of vital historical airlifts, minds race back to the Berlin Airlift. Robert Stephens takes us to another American-sponsored airlift that brought a generation of future African leaders to American shores for higher education. This effort profoundly altered the lives of these men and women, the development of East African nations, and the perception of America. At a time when the world struggled to understand the value of 'soft' as opposed to military power, this book offers a valuable historical model. Set during the last days of colonialism in Kenya, the book documents the development of human talent that would foster a majority-ruled independent Kenya. Its focus on Africans ñ their individual and collective biographies, aspirations and intermittent assistance from the US and others - is the story.

Author : John L. Rury,Eileen H. Tamura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199340040

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education by John L. Rury,Eileen H. Tamura Pdf

This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences. Its 36 chapters consider changing scholarship in the field, examine nationally-oriented works by comparing themes and approaches, lend international perspective on a range of issues in education, and provide suggestions for further research and analysis. Like many other subfields of historical analysis, the history of education has been deeply affected by global processes of social and political change, especially since the 1960s. The handbook weighs the influence of various interpretive perspectives, including revisionist viewpoints, taking particular note of changes in the past half century. Contributors consider how schooling and other educational experiences have been shaped by the larger social and political context, and how these influences have affected the experiences of students, their families and the educators who have worked with them. The Handbook provides insight and perspective on a wide range of topics, including pre-modern education, colonialism and anti-colonial struggles, indigenous education, minority issues in education, comparative, international, and transnational education, childhood education, non-formal and informal education, and a range of other issues. Each contribution includes endnotes and a bibliography for readers interested in further study.

Author : Ludovic Tournès,Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781785337031

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Global Exchanges by Ludovic Tournès,Giles Scott-Smith Pdf

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.

Author : Darren Newbury
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271098227

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Cold War Photographic Diplomacy by Darren Newbury Pdf

Author : Damiano Matasci,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Hugo Gonçalves Dores
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030278014

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Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Damiano Matasci,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Hugo Gonçalves Dores Pdf

This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the “educability” of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.

Author : Sicily Kariuki
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789966568144

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Breaking the Illusions by Sicily Kariuki Pdf

Breaking the Illusions is the story of resolve and grit in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. In this tell-all book, the author paints an insider's view of government, exposing the odds that are inexorably ranged against those who challenge the status quo and are perceived to be all-powerful. Hers is the intriguing story of a mistaken tag that at once opens multiple warfronts with shadowy detractors and opens previously unimaginable doors. The author provides a window into statecraft in a way that leaves the reader, researchers, ministers and even serving and aspiring public servants the richer.

Author : Fredrick Donde
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789966566089

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Obama Senior by Fredrick Donde Pdf

On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama made history as the first African-American president of the United States of America since its founding in 1776. Around the world, people celebrated his election as if he were one of their own and held exceedingly high expectations of his presidency. When, as senator of Illinois, he visited his fathers village in Nyangoma KOgelo in Kenya, he was struck by the ecstatic reception that the people accorded him. He was deeply touched by the abject poverty and fullness of spirit of the people. The level of need and the challenges that he witnessed in the poor neighbourhoods of Chicago in the US, in Indonesia and Kenya may have significantly contributed to his spirited drive to the White House. In this book, the author re-traces the life of Barack Obama Senior and how his character, vision and intellect influenced his sons drive to the most powerful office in the land. In so doing, the author revisits the events in pre- and post-colonial Kenya and how these, too, had a bearing on the life of Obama Senior. The book also relates the history of his people the Luo from their original settlements along the Nile in Egypt and the Sudan to their present homelands in East Africa and the Great Lakes region. It details the often tragic and ultimately triumphant struggle of a people in pursuit of a just, peaceful and progressive society.

Author : Daniel Opande
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789966566027

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In Pursuit of Peace in Africa by Daniel Opande Pdf

Lieutenant General Daniel Opande, in his autobiography In Pursuit of Peace in Africa, shares his experiences in childhood, education, family and military career until his retirement. He wore many hats: soldier, military leader, peacemaker, humanitarian, peace ambassador and mediator. Notable highlights include his role in Kenyas Shifta Campaign of the 1960s and engaging with rebels during peace operations he led in Namibia, Mozambique, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In retirement, General Opande has occasionally mediated conflicts; among them the 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2017 election crises in Kenya and the aftermath of the 2015 upheavals in South Sudan. This book is a rich inspirational resource for aspiring leaders.

Author : Kiereini, Jeremiah Gitau
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789966259783

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A Daunting Journey by Kiereini, Jeremiah Gitau Pdf

He is described as a Mau Mau oath-taker, seemingly of two minds ñ both for and against, loyal and disloyal. In A Daunting Journey, Jeremiah Gitau Kiereini, lets us into his life spanning three generations. He reveals insights into the influences and intrigues surrounding the early civil service and the powerful individuals who held Kenya's future in their hands. Kiereini also exposes the dichotomy that irreconcilably split the communities involved in the struggle for independence and the personal contradictions and challenges he encountered as he sought to find pride and loyalty in service to a newly independent Kenya. This is truly a fascinating chronicle that takes us from the humble and difficult years of childhood, through the Mau Mau years, the Kenyatta administration, the Moi regime, and on to the present in the life of Jeremiah Kiereini. Most captivating is the narrative on the infamous 1969 oath-taking commonly referred to as, ëCaai wa Gatunduí and the 1982 coup.

Author : Opande, Daniel
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789966564313

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In Pursuit of Peace in Africa by Opande, Daniel Pdf

Lieutenant General Daniel Opande, in his autobiography In Pursuit of Peace in Africa, shares his experiences in childhood, education, family and military career until his retirement. He wore many hats: soldier, military leader, peacemaker, humanitarian, peace ambassador and mediator. Notable highlights include his role in Kenya’s Shifta Campaign of the 1960s and engaging with rebels during peace operations he led in Namibia, Mozambique, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In retirement, General Opande has occasionally mediated conflicts; among them the 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2017 election crises in Kenya and the aftermath of the 2015 upheavals in South Sudan. This book is a rich inspirational resource for aspiring leaders.

Author : Khamisi, Joe
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789966259899

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Dash before Dusk by Khamisi, Joe Pdf

Dash before Dusk: A slave descendant's journey in freedom is an account of the life and times of Joe Khamisi, a Kenyan slave descendant whose ancestors were taken captive by Arab traders from Nyasaland and Tanganyika, rescued at sea by the British, and settled at Rabai, a slave encampment along the East African coast. Khamisi, a former journalist, diplomat and politician, narrates the significant contributions former slaves and their descendants made in the transformation of Kenya into an independent state and their continuing struggle for recognition.

Author : Mansfield Irving Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African students
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073119088

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The East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960 and 1961 by Mansfield Irving Smith Pdf

Author : Jim C. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135512804

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Western-Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963 by Jim C. Harper Pdf

Western-educated Elites in Kenya, proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya.

Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429960908

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Airlift to America by Tom Shachtman Pdf

This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and East Africans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to transport to, or support at, U.S. and Canadian universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change their world and ours. The students supported included Barack Obama Sr., future father of a U.S. president, Wangari Maathai, future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as well as the nation-builders of post-colonial East Africa -- cabinet ministers, ambassadors, university chancellors, clinic and school founders. The airlift was conceived by the unusual partnership of the charismatic, later-assassinated Kenyan Tom Mboya and William X. Scheinman, a young American entrepreneur, with supporting roles played by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The airlift even had an impact on the 1960 presidential race, as Vice-President Richard Nixon tried to muscle the State Department into funding the project to prevent Senator Jack Kennedy from using his family foundation to do so and reaping the political benefit. The book is based on the files of the airlift's sponsor, the African American Students Foundation, untouched for almost fifty years.

Author : Gabriel J. Chin,Rose Cuison Villazor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316033579

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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 c by Gabriel J. Chin,Rose Cuison Villazor Pdf

Along with the civil rights and voting rights acts, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is one of the most important bills of the civil rights era. The Act's political, legal, and demographic impact continues to be felt, yet its legacy is controversial. The 1965 Act was groundbreaking in eliminating the white America immigration policy in place since 1790, ending Asian exclusion, and limiting discrimination against Eastern European Catholics and Jews. At the same time, the Act discriminated against gay men and lesbians, tied refugee status to Cold War political interests, and shattered traditional patterns of Mexican migration, setting the stage for current immigration politics. Drawing from studies in law, political science, anthropology, and economics, this book will be an essential tool for any scholar or student interested in immigration law.