Kenya

Experts, publications and projects on Kenya

Staff, community members, research projects and publications

ASC research staff with an expertise on Kenya:

Ola Abagun (Project researcher)
Akinyinka Akinyoade (Senior researcher)
Anika Altaf (Senior researcher)
Marleen Dekker (Senior researcher)
Ton Dietz (Retired research fellow)
Daphne Engel (PhD candidate)
Dick Foeken (Retired research fellow)
Penina Olum (PhD candidate)
Annachiara Raia (Senior researcher)
Miriam Waltz (Senior researcher)
Hangyu Zhou (PhD candidate)

ASC community members with an expertise on Kenya:

Zenebe Mekonnen Adare
Patrick Asango Okanga
Ola Abagun
Emmanuel Aiyede
Akinyinka Akinyoade
Ernest Ako
Anika Altaf
Dilys Amoabeng
Abebe Amogne
Artemis Mantheakis

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Research projects related to Kenya:


African Perspectives on Peace and Security
Researchers: Lidewyde Berckmoes, Marleen Dekker, Jan-Bart Gewald, Tycho van der Hoog , Mayke Kaag, John Kegel

CoCooN Initiative Kenya Programme – ‘Land grab’ and dwindling water resources: reconciling competing claims and conflicts over natural resources in Africa’s dry lands, specifically Kenya

ECOTAF - ecotourism in Africa

ELKEN - elections in Kenya

Initiating and sustaining developmental regimes in Africa
Researchers: Ton Dietz, André Leliveld

Kenya Coast Portal
Researchers: Jan Hoorweg

MAALAND - Maasai pastoralism losing ground

MADIS - Maasai and disability

MINA - migration to Nairobi by Maasai pastoralists

Navigating collaboration and confrontation: success factors and constraints for CSOs in negotiation inclusion in land deals in Kenya, in the context of increased private sector importance
Researchers: Marleen Dekker

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Publications related to Kenya by keyword:


Swahili library worlds: unpacking the Indian Ocean intellectual history of three twentieth-century “living archives” in East Africa (2025)

Book review of J.Y. Sun, "Kenya’s and Zambia’s relations with China 1949-2019" (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023. Hardback ISBN 9781847013392, Ebook ISBN 9781800106628) (2024)

Dangerous liaisons: navigating women's land rights and disputes (2024)

Kenya at 60 (2024)

In this fragile world: Swahili poetry of commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau (2023)

Mabanati in search of an author: portable reform texts and multimodal narrative media among Swahili Muslim communities (2023)

Seeking 'ilm on Lamu: Ustadh Mau's library and services for the benefit of his community (2023)

Transoceanic print histories: twentieth-century Swahili Muslim networks in the Indian Ocean (2023)

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on vocational education and training in Kenya: a study of West Pokot County (2023)

Drylands connected: mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies (2022)

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