Orientation for East Africa Program Lewis and Clark College Spring 2006 Richard Peck

Places to begin looking for web-sites on Kenya, or for Africa in general including Kenya

A.     News sources

Africa in General, African Perspective, an online news source about Africa:
http://www.africanperspective.com/

The East African, a Weekly published by The Nation Group
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/Current/index.htm

Coastweek.com, an online version of a newspaper from Mombasa, on the Kenya Coast (not one of Kenya's major newspapers):
http://www.coastweek.com/

AllAfrica.com site for news about Africa, their East Africa page (there's a link for each East African Country on this page as well -- if you want to focus more tightly):
http://allafrica.com/eastafrica/

The Daily Nation on the Web, a Kenyan daily Newspaper
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/Today/

Friends of Kenya site (mostly returned Peace Corps Volunteers) has a page that lists recent news stories about Kenya (updated infrequently, apparently):
http://fok.pix.net/news/kenya-in-news.htm

The Analyst, a Kenyan on-line news source that bills itself as "the incisive economic monthly": http://www.analyst.co.ke/

Africa On-line Kenya page has links to a number of news sources in and about Kenya:
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/AfricaOnline/covernews.html

And for something less usual, the website for the Federation of International Camel Race Associations (which has a Kenyan branch):
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/derby/index.html

News from Nairobi, powered by worldnews.com: http://www.nairobi.com/

B.     General Sources of Information

Site with some wonderful pictures of the Maasai http://rosswarner.com/Maasai.html

Biography

African biography on the internet:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/afrbio.html

General

The World Bank's overview of Kenya:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/AFR/afr.nsf/55aeb2fbc67b4c3a852567cf004d2e9a/b2ddff1f8e644161852567d10045f885?OpenDocument

CIA's World Factbook page on Kenya: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ke.html

US AID's page about Kenya:
http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/kenya.html

Yale Africa Guide InterActive: African Countries: Kenya http://swahili.africa.yale.edu/links/African_Countries/Kenya/

Lots of useful bits of information: http://www.kenyaweb.com/

Some history, some other kinds of information about Kenya: http://www.newafrica.com/history/country.asp?CountryID=25

History

A good detailed lecture on the history on nationalism in the British Colonies of Africa, from Wallace G. Mills Hist. 317 13 Nationalist movements, St. Mary's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

"Kenya's freedom fighters await rewards ... 35 years on"
On the 35th anniversary of Kenyan independence, Mau Mau veterans continue to feel that they have been forgotten by an ungrateful country. DAVID GOUGH in Nairobi (1998 story in South Africa’s Weekly Mail & Guardian)
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/98dec1/3dec-kenya.html

World History Archives on Kenya, with a very nice selection of articles and information available: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/36/index-b.html

Brief summary of Kenyan history from University of Pennsylvania African Studies Web: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/k-hist.html

Site with lots of Kenyan history, photos, etc. etc. on it: http://www.kenyalogy.com/eng/mapa/mapa.html

"Welcome to a return trip to the early part of the 1900s through some of the photographs taken or gathered by missionary Laura Collins. The images displayed here are one woman's view, mostly of Kenya, at the beginning of the twentieth century, probably before 1914. They depict the country's society, customs, economics, and geography, as well as its growing Christian church, the missionary community assisting in that endeavor, and Collins herself. Also included are some photographs from Cameroon, the Belgian Congo and Uganda."
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/exhibits/collins/colins15.htm

Book about Mau Mau Women, in html format. Warning: it is a huge file (686K), and will take a long time if you have a slow connection. http://www.uoguelph.ca/~terisatu/MauMau/

Looksmart’s list of sites on Kenyan history: http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus317836/eus317911/eus53828/eus56155/eus527276/eus528664/eus543407/r?l&pin=000108x5c736298010f7ac1b71&

African History on internet: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html

specifically for Kenya: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/kenya.html

Some more material on Kenyan History: http://www.jambokenya.com/jambo/kenya/govt02.htm

Lists of Websites

Information sources on Kenya, from Babson College library:
http://www.babson.edu/library/countries/kenya1.htm

Africa Homepage, country section, scroll down to Kenya: many good links to news sources and other sources: http://www.cc.utah.edu/~pks1019/country.html

Kenya homepage with lots of good links: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~papaf/

Long list of links to electronic journals and newspapers on or about Africa: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/ejournals.html

An annotated list of Africa websites: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html

Links to sources of information on East Africa: http://www.africapolicy.org/featdocs/eastnews.htm

Links to Journals and tables of contents

Tables of contents for journals on Africa:
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/toc/index.html

Maps

Maps of Africa: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/maps.html

A few maps of Kenya and some other interesting information on the site for Friends of Kenya (mostly returned Peace Corps Volunteers): http://fok.pix.net/about-kenya.htm

 

C. Politics and Human Rights

Ethnic Cleansing and the Environment in Kenya
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/KIKUYU.HTM

Site on Human Rights in Kenya, with links to related sites:
http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/afr/kenya-l.html

US Department of State 1997 report on Human Rights in Kenya
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1997_hrp_report/kenya.html

JUVENILE INJUSTICE: Police abuse and detention of street children in Kenya
Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports/1997/kenya/

AID AND REFORM IN AFRICA
Kenya Case Study This case study on Aid and Reform in Kenya forms a part of a larger
World Bank research project on Aid and Reform in Africa. The objective of the
overall study is to obtain a better understanding of the causes of economic policy reforms in
developing countries, in this case in a group of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, and of the possible influence of foreign aid in promoting reforms. Has donor aid, particularly balance of payments assistance linked to Structural Adjustment programs (SAPs), generated, encouraged, or impeded reforms? What has been the nature of the linkage between aid and policy reforms? This study focuses on the time period 1980-1998 . . .
http://www.worldbank.org/research/aid/africa/kenya2.pdf

Interviews from local people on Mt. Elgon, of which the site says "The interviews on this site have been gathered by the Oral Testimony Programme of the Panos Institute in partnership with local organisations. To date, some 250 interviews have been conducted by local people in local languages, recorded, transcribed, translated, and summarised. This project is part of Panos' Oral Testimony Programme, which aims to amplify the voices of those at the heart of development: people who are disadvantaged by poverty, gender, lack of education and other inequalities. Collecting and disseminating oral testimonies allows the least vocal and least powerful members of society to speak for themselves, rather than through outsiders or "experts". ' http://www.mountainvoices.org/kenya.asp

THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC POLICY REFORM IN KENYA, a paper from 1999 by John Mugabe and George Krhoda, Presented at workshop on Environmental Adjustment:
Opportunities for Progressive Policy Reform in the Forest Sector?" at World Resources Institute April 6, 1999, available as a PDF document, for which you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download): www.wri.org/wri/governance/pdf/kenya_web.pdf

African Women in Politics and Constitution Making in Kenya, report on a Training Workshop held at the Whitesands Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, 15th-19th November 1998. Organised by Alliances for Africa and Infor-Ward. Available as an MS Word document at: www.alliancesforafrica.org/Publications/Kenya%2011.98.doc

C. Sources of Kenyan recipes

Swahili recipes from this website (modified by Peck from Recipes from the Kenya Coast)

Zanzibari recipes (on this website now, borrowed from http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Cookbook/Zanzibar.html

D. Resources for the Swahili language (on a separate webpage of this site)