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Dr Wakah explain the readers on how Kenya after independence in June 1963, the Government of Kenya (GoK), in its first formal development planning initiative developed Sessional Paper number 10 of 1965 in which poverty, ignorance and disease were identified as major impediments to development. The author elucidate on three dimensions which have been the center of GoK development initiatives. Since then, poverty has been at the center of development programmes by the GoK including the District Focus for Rural Development and Social Dimensions of Development programmes despite the fact that all...

The author has presented a detailed examination of Inter-ethnic conflict in Western Kenya. Ethnicity has been a serious problem in Kenya both in terms of political integration and realization of objective economic development among competing ethnic communities. He has observed clearly that ethnic relations have been politicized by successive governments in Kenya with limited objective measures to address its related consequences. A historical approach to this problem which he has recommended is very relevant for solving future problems related to this case because it provides a basis for...

Teacher education is a known variable that impacts the quality of teaching and schooling, yet while research on practices in teaching and teacher education abound in other contexts, there seems to be no comprehensive reference work on teaching and teacher education in Africa. With Africa and the diaspora boasting rich, diverse political and educational contexts and practices, this gap in knowledge requires that attention be focused on investigating issues that shape the pace, course, and direction of teaching and teacher education in these contexts. The Handbook of Research on Teaching and...

Eating harbits of people keeps on changing over time so to the climate, calling for new inovertive technologies to adress the situation. In Kenya intensive production of sweet potato is constrained by lack of improved varieties, pests, diseases and scarcity of land. In this study 11 improved sweetpotato varieties; Kemb10, SPK004, Mugande, Namaswakhe, K117, Polista, Bungoma, Odinga, 292-H-12, Zapallo and Nyathi Odiewo (Improved), were tested against 4 popular farmer varieties; Nyathi Odiewo (local), Jayalo, Amina and Kuny kibuonjo. The experiment model was mother and baby trial with farmers...