AO: practices related to: projectization; consultancies; external western funding of research.Read more
AO: Much of it is through private or semi-private channels - emails; whatsapps; facebook. Often companies don’t have the capacity to explicitly develop internal org policy for example...Read more
Angela Okune: These two quotes from the discussion describe the pressure for African academics to be "seen to be competing internationally" (Oniang'o) and the resulting expectations...Read more
Ruth Oniang'o describes why she started the Nairobi-based journal AJFAND and the funding challenge which the journal continues to face even after nearly 20 years of being operational.
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AO: The article explains (see excerpt below) that the Government of Kenya (GoK) demonstrated its tangible support of the Internet when it decided to lay down its...Read more
AO: This excerpt from the discussion describes the surprise that two of the Kibera residents felt when they found their names mentioned in research reports. One person mentions that his name is in...Read more
Transcript from one-on-one interview
Tuesday, May 14 , 2019
10:23 AM – 11:28 AM
Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)
Participant: Kenyan woman who resides in...Read more
AO: Lots of debate on this issue - sentiments that “Kenyan society doesn’t value research” which was pushed back against: “Academics don’t write things that society wants to read!”...Read more
