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Author : Ndung'u P. Kimani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Informal sector (Economics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115132974
Author : Matatu Za Jogoo Road
Publisher : Pencil
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789358832099
Matatu za Jogoo Road" takes readers on a colorful journey through Kenya's urban soul. From their origins as rural transport vehicles to their vibrant presence on matatus in Nairobi, matatus are more than just modes of transportation they are cultural icons. With engaging storytelling and vivid descriptions, this book explores the rich history, dynamic art, and communal spirit of matatus, offering a captivating glimpse into the heart of Kenya's urban life. Whether you're a commuter, traveler, or cultural enthusiast, "Matatu za Jogoo Road" offers an immersive experience into the world of Kenya's iconic matatus.
Author : Orieko Chitere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121837400
Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226471396
Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.
Author : Doreen Strauhs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137330901
Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies.
Author : Robert A. Obudho,J. B. Ojwang
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9966250077
Author : X. Godard,I. Fatonzoun
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9058093999
This title covers topics such as: the urban travel mobility of social groups; transport, urbanism and accessibility; mass transport investment; regulation, integration and financing public transport; road safety; and strategic approach, institution and governance.
Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Maurice N. Amutabi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031158544
This volume is a bold attempt to address a comprehensive range of themes and issues relating to contemporary Kenya. It covers independent Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment with great breadth and depth, comprising thirty-four chapters divided into three parts. Part I focuses on independence and the political economy of development, followed by Part II on environment, globalization, gender, and society. Part III examines the external context’s impact and implications for Kenya and the role of Kenya in the global political economy.
Author : Nickson Moseti Ongaki,Enock Mauthia Otundo
Publisher : EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781517160982
This study will seek to find out the effects of strategic planning on enhancing investments in public transport Saccos in Kenya. The study will also seek to find out recent changes in operation of public transport in Kenya for example new vehicles on the road, new safety rules and the registration of co-operative societies to replace the Matatu Welfare Associations in a new development which started from early 1990s. Cooperatives are economic units by which members mobilize their financial resources through savings. It is estimated that this sector contributes about 20% to the gross Domestic Product. Although this sector is considered both economically and socially important, sectoral report indicates that nearly 2% of savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) collapse every year and about 6% of registered members withdraw their membership annually. Some SACCOs pay dividends which are as low as 3.5%. It is not clear why there is a deteriorating trend in most of the societies despite governments financial regulations being in operation since 2004 that were meant to help SACCOs achieve sustainability through growth and financial stability. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of governments financial regulations on investment performance in SACCOs in Nairobi County. The study adopted descriptive research design and purposive sampling method. The research adopted a self administered questionnaire which was used to collect quantitative data. The study units comprised 104 sacco societies of public transport in Nairobi County. The questionnaire was designed based on a Five Lickert scale. However, only 95 Saccos were actively in operation. The other 9 were either dormant or inactive. Therefore, 87 Saccos were randomly sampled and studies. The findings show that government financial regulations have been moderately regulated with a weighted mean of 2.805. Concerning the approval of maximum borrowing powers by members, a weighted mean score of 3.816 on the scale was posted. It is therefore expected that with this large extent of implementation of this regulation, Saccos will have a strong financial stability since they will have fewer loans to service. The study also found out that performance of Saccos in terms of efficient and prompt disbursement of loans is quite wanting with a weighted mean score 2.0919. Key recommendations were to the Ministry of Co-operative Development to mobilize resources to educate the members and management committees of the societies for better performance, and adherence to the regulations laid down by the government.
Author : Yousafzai, Shumaila,Henry, Colette,Boddington, Monique,Sheikh, Shandana,Fayolle, Alain
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789901375
This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs’ efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. With important implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses’ size and formal status.
Author : Nic Cheeseman,Karuti Kanyinga,Gabrielle Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192547668
Kenya is one of the most politically dynamic and influential countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, it is known in equal measure as a country that has experienced great highs and tragic lows. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kenya was seen as a ''success story" of development in the periphery, and also led the way in terms of democratic breakthroughs in 2010 when a new constitution devolved power and placed new constraints on the president. However, the country has also made international headlines for the kind of political instability that occurs when electoral violence is expressed along ethnic lines, such as during the "Kenya crisis" of 2007/08 when over 1,000 people lost their lives and almost 700,000 were displaced. The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics explains these developments and many more, drawing together 50 specially commissioned chapters by leading researchers. The chapters they have contributed address a range of essential topics including the legacy of colonial rule, ethnicity, land politics, devolution, the constitution, elections, democracy, foreign aid, the informal economy, civil society, human rights, the International Criminal Court, the growing influence of China, economic policy, electoral violence, and the impact of mobile phone technology. In addition to covering some of the most important debates about Kenyan politics, the volume provides an insightful overview of Kenyan history from 1930 to the present day and features a set of chapters that review the impact of devolution on regional politics in every part of the country.
Author : Roger Behrens,Dorothy McCormick,David Mfinanga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317910107
Public transport systems in contemporary Sub-Saharan African cities are heavily reliant upon paratransit services. These services are defined as informal transportation which operates between the public and individual private spheres. In Africa paratransit is characterized by low quality of vehicles and chaotic management but it also provides cheap, accessible and flexible transport solutions for the urban poor. It is typically poorly regulated and operates as a set of informal businesses. A common result of weak public sector regulation and a fare strategy in which owners claim a fixed daily revenue target and drivers who keep the variable balance as income, is destructive competition and poor quality of service. There is an incontrovertible case for improving the quality, reliability and coverage of public transport systems, and some city governments have attempted to do so by initiating reform projects that envisage the phased replacement of paratransit operations with formalised bus rapid transit systems. In this book the authors argue that there are, however, path dependencies and constraints that limit the possible extent of public transport system reform. Paratransit operations also have some inherent advantages with respect to demand responsiveness and service innovation. Attempts to eradicate paratransit may be neither pragmatic nor strategic. Two future scenarios are likely: hybrid systems comprised of both paratransit and formally planned modes; and systems improved by upgrades and strengthened regulation of existing paratransit services. The business strategies and aspirations of incumbent paratransit operators in three case cities – Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi – are discussed, as well as their attitudes towards emerging public transport reform projects. International experiences of hybrid system regulation and paratransit business development are reviewed in order to explore policy options. The authors contend that policies recognising paratransit operators, and seeking contextually appropriate complementarity with formalised planned services, will produce greater benefits than policies ignoring their continued existence.
Author : Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781431403257
Metropolises often evoke images of flashy high-rise buildings, permanent background noise, backed-up cars and people moving quickly in all directions in their masses. New York, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo. But what about Cairo?
Author : Meleckidzedeck Khayesi,Fredrick Muyia Nafukho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317116868
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service, provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic, political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
Author : Meleckidzedeck Khayesi,Fredrick Muyia Nafukho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317116851
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service, provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic, political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
