- Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- CHF
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- I Paid a Bribe
Resource Type: Website
Anti-bribery website.
- IFJ/FAJ Back Journalists Protest over Oppressive Media Bill in Kenya
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) are giving their full backing to journalists in Kenya in their battle against a contentious Media Bill that threatens press freedom in the country.
- IFJ/FAJ Stand by Journalists against a Draconian Media Bill in Kenya
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) today have brought their support to the journalists' fraternity in Kenya against a draconian media bill voted by the national assembly.
- Kenya: Faiths Join Protests Against Curbs on Media Freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Violent scenes reminiscent of the dark days of President Daniel Moiâ##s dictatorship have returned to the Kenyan capital after parliament passed a bill which tightens the stateâ##s grip on the broadcast media.
- Kenya: President deals major blow to press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Kenyan President deals major blow to press freedom. Also known as the â#oICT Billâ##, the new legislation provides for heavy fines and prison sentences for press offences. It also gives the government, above all the information and interior ministrie
- Kenyan Blogger Bogonko Bosire is Still Missing, Nearly Two Years After His Disappearance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Two years ago, a Kenyan blogger went missing. As a critic accusing government officials and celebrities of corruption, foul play is very much suspected. Kenyans have turned to social media to revive the search for Bogonko Bosire.
- Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power.
- Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
- Kenya's Freedom Struggle
The Dedan Kimathi Papers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Here, for the first time, as a result of years of village-level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the most important papers of the Mau Mau and its leader, Dedan Kimathi. Translated into English, they make clear the movement's own perspectives on their struggle and its difficulties, the advanced nature of their goals as a national liberation movement, and their radical vision of a liberated Kenyan society.
- The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repression.
- Land, Freedom and Fiction
History and Ideology in Kenya
Resource Type: Book
A unique exploration of the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence was mirrored in the novels of settler writers, English authors at home, and subsequently indigenous Kenyan novelists. The author explores the relationships between historical events, the myths that are cultivated to serve particular social interests, and literary creation.
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
- Maathai, Wangari
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
- Maathai, Wangari
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (1940-2011).
- Mau Mau Uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An insurgency by Kenyan peasants against the British colonialist rule.
- Mother, Sing for Me
People's Theatre in Kenya
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This play, acted by the villagers of Kamiriithu, was banned after a few public rehearsals. The Kenyan authorities subsequently ordered the total destruction of the village cultural centre which had been the play's birthplace. The thousands who saw the rehearsals recognized the play's message that the oppression of colonial times still bore down on them in the 1980s and the key to freedom lay in rejecting the divisive myth of tribalism and uniting as Kenyans.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Slumming in Kenya's back streets
A young TV crew is chronicling a life of dirt, violence and hope
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Slum TV is a group of young people from Mathare, one of the slums of Kenya, who chronicle life in their community during times of peace and unrest.
- The Socialist Register 1978
Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- Weep Not Child
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel, about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.
- Weep Not Child
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel, about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.
- Weep Not Child
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
The book follows the story of Njoroge, a young boy who seeks an education during the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. This tumultuous time period saw the emergence of Kenyan revolutionary groups against the British colonists.
- Which Way Africa?
The Search for a New Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
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