Kieh, George Klay and Pita Ogaba Agbese. The Military and Politics in Africa: From Engagement To Democratic and Constitutional Control. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004.

The book has two major objectives. First, it examines the various aspects of the involvement of the military as governors in the politics of African states. Second, it offers some suggestions on ways in which constitutional and political strategies can be used to control the military’s recurrent intervention in politics in Africa. The book aims to provide insights into the military’s role in African politics from initial intervention to the performance of military regimes, as well as to disengagement, reengagement, consolidation and finally, the offering of ways to control the problem of intervention.

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Kigandi, Simon, ed. Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002.

The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in Africa has been a product of the twentieth century, the Encyclopedia also covers the literature back to the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, making this a unique and valuable resource for those studying social sciences as well as humanities. This work includes cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensive index.

[Source: Book description culled from by Routledge.com].

Kimari, Wangui, and Henrik Ernstson. “Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large‐Scale Infrastructures of East Africa.” Antipode 52, no. 3 (2020): 825–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12623.

Authors combine infrastructure studies and black radical traditions to foreground how imperial remains deeply inform the logics that bring forth contemporary large‐scale infrastructures in Africa. The objective, prompted by the ongoing avid promotion of such architectures on the continent, is to contribute to an analysis that centres race in these projects. They argue that these initiatives have to be understood in relation to inherited material and discursive scaffoldings that remain from the colonial period, through what they refer to as imperial remains and imperial invitations. These remains and invitations demonstrate how recent mega infrastructures inhere, in their planning, financing and implementation, a colonial racialism, despite rhetorical claims to the opposite. Empirically, they draw principally on China built and financed infrastructure projects from Kenya, and theoretically upon black radical traditions to foreground a longer genealogy of black pathologizing and resistance to it on the continent.

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King Sunny Adé

Musician

Nigeria

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Kinnear, Lisa, and Karen Ortlepp. “Emerging Models of Power among South African Women Business Leaders.” SA Journal of Industrial Psychology 42, no. 1 (2016): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajip.v42i1.1359.

Women leaders’ discourse of power needs to be better understood to enable a more conscious approach to gender transformation that takes women’s perspectives into account. This article reviews women leaders’ construction of power within a feminist framework which recognises that leadership and power theories are not neutral because they have been developed within a patriarchal context, resulting in the performativity of gender against restricted set of norms(Butler, 1990; Fletcher, 2004; Lazar, 2005).

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Chris Kirubi

Director, Centum Investment Company Limited

Investment

Kenya

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Kita, Stern Mwakalimi."Barriers or enablers? Chiefs, elite capture, disasters, and resettlement in rural Malawi." Disasters 43,no. 1 (2019): 135-156.

The study explores the role of traditional leadership in community development. Specifically, it looks at the role of elites as development actors and how other actors can work with them in delivering public goods and services in Malawi. These local elites - mainly chiefs, are powerful individuals who take control or alter the delivery of public goods and services, usually at the expense of the local populace who need it most. The study looks at different forms of elite involvement in Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities, specifically resettlement and disaster relief in rural districts of Malawi. The study found that traditional elites influence, positively or negatively, community level delivery of CCA or DRR practices in rural Malawi. When there are resistances towards resettlements due to climate disasters, local elites are usually at the forefront of resistance by speaking against it. Because chiefs are in control of customary lands in most African countries, they are in privileged position to control the local population and in effect government interventions.

Gachao Kiuna

CEO, Aqua Power

Power Infrastructure

Kenya

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