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EDUCATION AND CULTURE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST AFRICA

Issue №2 from 01.02.2016

Africa is rich in terms of its young human and other natural resources like oil, gas, gold, uranium, diamond, forests and fertile soils. The continent is currently putting together developmental strategies that include: regional economic communities, infrastructure that include Information, Communication, Technology (ICT), roads, bridges, electrical grids, telecommunication, strengthening health and education capacities, security etc. However, for the purpose of this article the authors have concentrated on the East African region and on two components culture and education the double bind for development.Education and Culture are inseparable twins and they both contribute to general development. The aim of education is to develop the mind, the attitude of reason, that spirit of democracy that makes us responsible citizens.

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CHANGE OR CONTINUITY? POLITICAL TRANSITIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN KENYA

Issue 3 from 01.03.2015

This article attempts to investigate and analyze challenges and prospects facing Kenya in its quest for democratization and construction of a viable state and cohesive society. Kenya before the post-2007 general election was viewed as an oasis of peace in a turbulent region, a situation that was enabled by stalled political transitions that never before turned to widespread violence.Transitional politics in Kenya have been deeply polarized along regional and more prominently ethnic lines. The questions this article is seeking to investigate are: what impact has the political systems and the civil society had in promoting the values of compromise conciliation, consensus building and tolerance in an ethnically polarized society. Has the civil society been partisan or neutral to ethnic interests? How and when do civil societies become engaged in politics? Can it be an integrative force in nation (state) building?

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