Strategic governance is necessary in moving Africa forward. This book Strategic Governance and Sustainable Development in Africa contains many chapters whose major focus is strategies on arresting poverty, and helping in Africa’s quest for sustainable development. The chapters use contemporary data to present accounts of massive wealth as well as constructing nuanced and detailed pictures of development trajectories and experiences in African countries, from peasant and bourgeois production to industrial and post-industrial phase. The authors work with outstanding and exceptional sets of sources, consisting of both primary and secondary sources, showing how poverty is a created condition in a continent that is perhaps the wealthiest in the world. The use of primary data in various chapters gives unparalleled insights into the past, present and future. The authors challenge much of the narratives on development in Africa which often associate poverty with lack of hard work, initiative, innovation and creativity, demonstrating how farmers, herders and other producers in Africa spend many quality hours trying to improve their lot but get frustrated by poor governance. The chapters have unique specificity and use examples of deep and captured states, often helpless in cushioning their citizens from predatory internal and external dynamics due to lack of strategic governance. Readers from development studies, area, gender, youth, women and minority studies and all social sciences and humanities will find the book useful.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Governance Challenges on the African Continent and Implications for Democracy and Development: Experiential and Historical Retrospection
By Maurice N. Amutabi
Chapter 2
Governance of Public Universities in Kenya and Trade Unionization of Academic Staff: The University Academic Staff Union (UASU)
By Daniel N Sifuna
Chapter 3
From ‘Globalization of Indifference’ to ‘Globalization of Compassion’: Towards Personalization of World Peace and Development in Africa
By Clement Chinkambako Abenguni Majawa,
Chapter 4
Constraints in adopting Agricultural Innovations transmitted via Makeover Reality Television in Kenya
By Caroline Biwott
Chapter 5
Dynamics of Curriculum Change in Kenya and Implications on Academic Progress and Stakeholders
By Jane Kamau, Simon Ndungu and Jacqueline Onyango
Chapter 6
Role of Leadership Skills in the Management of Public Energy Sector Projects in Kenya
By Annastacia Katumbi Musembi
Chapter 7
University Education and Sustainable Development in Kenya: The Role of the Commission for University Education (CUE)
By Edwin Okoth Ogada and Maureen Ajiambo Muleka
Chapter 8
Reflection on the Role of Trade Unions in Upholding Democracy in the Workplace, South Africa
By John Mamokhere,
Chapter 9
Health-Facility Characteristics Influencing the Uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among Adolescents 15-19 years: A Case-Study of Homa-Bay County, Kenya
By Faith Muhonja; Margaret Keraka; and Phoebe Ndayala
Chapter 10
Decline in Government Funding and the Quality of Instructional Progrmmes in Public Universities in Kenya
By Daniel N Sifuna & Isabella M Kamere
Chapter 11
Problematizing the Question of Quality: Malawi’s ODL Context and Implications on the Education Sector
By Mackenzie Chibambo and Joseph Divala
Chapter 12
Inclusive Library and Information Services for Gender Equality: Towards Achieving National Development in Nigeria
By Murtala Ismail Adakawa and Zam’a Muhammad Al-Hassan
Chapter 13
Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Electronic Information Services in University Libraries in Nigeria: The Librarians’ Perspectives
By Cyprian I. Ugwu
Chapter 14
Impact of Library Usage on Medical Students’ Academic Performance in College of Health Sciences, Bayero University Kano
By Z. Muhammad Alhassan, M. Ismail Adakawa and M. Sani Kabir
Chapter 15
Adoption of E-Commerce and the Influencing Factors: Case of Public Servants in Oyo State Government Agencies, Nigeria
By Kemi Ogunsola and Adedayo Sunday Adetunji
Chapter 16
Dynamics of Street Robbery in Urban Areas in Kenya and Implications on Security: A case of Nairobi City County, CBD
By Kevin Mogire and Jeniffer Birech
Chapter 17
The Impact of Socio-Cultural Attitudes on Gender Equity in Education: The case of Mixed Gender Government Secondary Schools in Tanzania
By Milka Otieno
Chapter 18
Towards the Saho Anthroponymy and Making Meaning from Naming Trends: A study of the Semantics and Cultural Aspects of Saho Personal Names
By Moses James Olenyo Malande and Omer Romodan Omer
Chapter 19
Information Needs and Seeking Strategies of People with Disability for Health Literacy in Sumaila Local Government Area of Kano State
By Murtala Ismail Adakawa and Zam’a Muhammad Al-Hassan
Chapter 20
Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development in Kenya and Implications on Health and Healthcare: Experiential Views from the Grassroot
By Catherine Wandera Solomon, Prof. Odoch Pido and Dr Donna Pido
Chapter 21
Dynamics of Microfinance and Implications on the Development of Small-Scale Medium Enterprises in Nigeria
By Usman Ibrahim Zwal
Chapter 22
Curriculum issues in Knowledge Generation, e-learning Education Synchronization and ICT policy framework in Nigeria
By Ugochukwu O. Matthew, Jazuli S. Kazaure and Ado Saleh Kazaure
About African Interdisciplinary Studies Association Website
Prof. Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi is President of African Interdisciplinary Studies Association (AISA), a pioneer professional associaiton bringing together members from all disciplines in Africa and abroad. He is a former Fulbright Scholar who previously worked as Deputy Vice Chancellor at Kisii University and also Director of Research and Professor in Peace and Strategic Studies at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), 2010-2013. He has previously taught at Central Washington University, USA (2005-2010) in African Studies Programme and Moi University (1992-2000) in the Department of Development Studies and other public universities in Kenya. Prof. Amutabi holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in History and African Studies. He received his B.A (Hons) in 1989 in Political Science and History and M.A in 1991 from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Maurice Amutabi is co-editor of Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule (with Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o) – in 2013. Amutabi also co-edited Africa after Fifty Years: Retrospections and Reflections (with Toyin Falola and Sylvester Gundona) in 2012. Amutabi is the author of The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya (New York: Routledge, 2006). Amutabi is co-author of Nationalism and Democracy for People-Centered Development in Africa (Moi University Press, 2000). He has also co-authored Foundations of Adult Education in Africa (Cape Town/Hamburg: Pearson/UNESCO, 2005). He has written two novels, Because of Honor (a novel on Islam in Africa) and These Good People (a novel on corruption in Africa). Amutabi is also the author of Nakhamuma Stories (a collection of short stories from the Abaluyia community of western Kenya). His chapters have appeared in over thirty books. His articles have appeared in several refereed and reputable journals such as African Studies Review, African Contemporary Cultural Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, International Journal of Educational Development; and Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Amutabi has made presentations at over one hundred national and international conferences. Amutabi is the Vice-President of the Kenya Studies and Scholars’ Association (KESSA), Kenya’s premier research and academic organization. He is the editor-in-chief of Kenya Studies Review and Eastern Africa Journal of Humanities and Sciences. Prof. Amutabi has conducted extensive research on many issues of development. He has taught courses on peace and conflict and gender and development. He teaches in the PhD and Masters Programme in the Institute of Peace and Security Studies at Kisii University. He enjoys blogging and writing and is an avid sports fan, but does not support any of team, preferring to support the team that plays well.
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