African Women and Intellectual Leadership

ISBN-13: 9781032279893 / Twarda / 2024 / 296 str.

Opis

This book highlights the pioneering roles of African women as leaders and role models in Kenya, providing examples taken from across education, health, business, and a range of other sectors. It will be of interest to researchers and students of African studies, gender studies, and Kenyan education and socio-political history.

Spis treści

1. Kenyan women in the gendered educational arena: the case of Professor Julia Auma Ojiambo  2. Defining education, delimiting gender: Lessons from the life-story of Salome Nolega David  3. Professor Miriam Khamadi Were: Pioneer Medical Educator and Health Researcher  4. Professor Christine Mango: Pioneer Educationist, Environmentalist and Politician  5. Lady Justice Effie Owuor: Kenya’s First Female State Counsel, Magistrate, High Court Judge, and Court of Appeal Judge  6. Professor Norah Khadzini Olembo - Pioneer Biotechnologist, Leading Academic and Researcher in Africa  7. Dr. Mary Okelo: The Daughter of Canon Awori and Pioneer Founder of Private School  8. Leading the Leaders: Professor Florida Amakobe Karani  9. Professor Mary Clasina Lutta-Mukhebi: Pioneer Educationist, Leading Linguist and University Administrator  10. Dr. Jane Awinja Nandwa: The making of Kenya’s Founder of Oral Literature  11. Reverend Sister Rita Itebete: the Making of a Great Teacher, School Administrator, Mentor and Role Model  12. Priscilla Were: Pioneer Educationist and Longest Serving Principal of Bunyore Girls High School  13. Professor Hellen Aswani Mwanzi: Lessons in Academic Excellence and Mentoring  14. Professor Shanyisa Anota Khasiani: Pioneer Scholar and Researcher in Population Studies  15. Professor Teresa Akenga: The Petite Dark Girl who grew up to become a top Notch Administrator  16. Professor Judy Wangalwa Wakhungu: Diplomat, Environmentalist, Academician  17. Professor Dame Magdalene Odundo AM (RCA): A Life in Clay  18. Dr. Rachael Masake: The First Female Veterinary Surgeon in Kenya  19. Professor Joyce Muhenge Olenja: Spreading the Wings Abroad  20. Alice Barasa Nabwera: The Making of a Successful Pioneer School Administrator  21. Professor Gladys Opinya: Kenya’s First Female Dental Surgeon  22. The Life-Story of a great Nutrition Scholar: Professor Mary Khakoni Walingo  23. Professor Mabel Imbuga: Pioneer Educationist, Leading Researcher and Highly Successful University Administrator  24. Honourable Professor Ruth Khasaya Barwa Oniang'o: The making of an Academic and Political Icon

O autorze

Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi is Professor and Director for the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the Technical University of Kenya (TUK), Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA as History Major and Minor in Political Science and Comparative Gender). He is the author of over 70 books, among them The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya (New York: Routledge, 2006) and Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule (by Maurice N. Amutabi and Shadrack Wanjala Nasongo -Routledge, 2015), and over 100 articles in refereed journals and edited books. Prof. Amutabi has previously served as DVC (Academics, Research and Students Affairs) at Kisii University and Vice Chancellor at Lukenya University, Kenya.

Emily Achieng' Akuno is Vice Chancellor of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology. A Professor of Music she trained as a performer-educator at Kenyatta University in Kenya, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA and Kingston University in the UK. Her research interests veer towards cultural relevance in music education. A professor of music of the Technical University of Kenya, she is editor and contributing author of the 2019 published Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process and Practice as well as articles tackling issues around music and teacher education in cultural context. She is a former president of the International Music Council (IMC) and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) as well as founding chair of the Music Education Research Group – Kenya (MERG-Kenya).

Dannica Fleuss is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Future Media, Democracy & Society at Dublin City University (Ireland) and a research associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (University of Canberra, Australia). She has been a research fellow and (senior) in political theory, empirical political science and political philosophy at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg and Heidelberg University. She is a co-convenor of the PSA's Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, a co-convenor and an Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary Journal Democratic Theory. She was a visiting research fellow and lecturer at the University of Canberra (Australia), Westminster University (London, UK), the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), the University of Nairobi and the Technical University of Kenya (Kenya). Dannica holds a MA in philosophy and political science and a PhD in political science. Her published research, e.g. in Political Studies, Policy & Internet, Political or Political Geography and in her monograph Radical Proceduralism, focuses on theories of democratic legitimacy, deliberative democracy, environmental politics and attempts at decolonizing democratic theory.

Humphrey Jeremiah Ojwang holds various visiting professor positions. He has previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies has donated a monograph to the Library Department.  He has served as the Thematic Unit Head overseeing the areas of Language, Culture, and Society at the Department. He is a member of the Kenya Museum Society as well as the East African Natural History Society (Nature Kenya). His areas of research focus are – Indigenous languages and knowledge systems, Ethnobotanical Terminology and Lexicography, as well as Linguistic Anthropology.