Young people aged 18-35 years are more optimistic about the future of Kenya compared to the elderly people who are aged 51 years and above. This is the findings by Afrobarometer, an organization that closely works with the University of Nairobi research think-tank Institute of Development Studies.
Kenyan transport sector has been chaotic, with matatus and buses operating with minimum regard to road safety. The Institute for Development Studies( IDS), together with other partners, endeavors to develop a Socially Just Public Transport (SJPT)model that solves the ills of the modern day chaotic transport system.
The idea that Kenya is made up of 42(+) tribes is widespread, but the origins, nature and consequences of any list of these tribes are not well known. This was the issue in focus during the IDS seminar by Dr Samantha Balaton-Chrimes on 5th December 2019.
Deadline for applications: January 4 2020 at noon (East African Time)
Prof Giovanni Carbone gave a seminar on leadership and development in Africa,
“Political leadership and development in Africa. The project, the dataset, the
findings.”The seminar is based on his forthcoming book, Political leadership in
Africa. Leaders and development south of the Sahara. It was delivered during TDS
503 lecture (Theory and Design of Development Research), which is taught by Dr
Radha Upadhyaya.
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) invites applications for a 3-year position as Postdoc Researcher, starting on 1 February 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. The researcher will be part of the collaborative research project ‘Diaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crises’, focusing on Somalia.
The Project
The Kenya Transport Research Network (KTRN) based at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, and the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group - facilitated by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung-Kenya, (FES Kenya) - will host an informal discussion on “Promoting a Socially Just Public Transport and the Role of Actors in Kenya.”
IDS Senior Research Fellow, Dr Mary Kinyanjui, presented a seminar entitled, “Towards an African Economic Geography: Challenges and Lessons Learned”, at the University of Nairobi Towers on November 21, 2019.
In 1992 Dr Mary Kinyanjui, a Senior Research Fellow at IDS, returned to Kenya after obtaining her PhD in Geography from Cambridge University.
The scholar’s experiences in two Kenyan universities will be the gist of her seminar, “Towards an African Economic Geography: Lesson Learned from Development Studies Research.”
“If you had been given a choice of which kind of political system to be born into, would you choose authoritarianism or democracy?”
This is the question that Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, posed during a packed seminar hosted by the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, on November 14, 2019.
