O A K’akumu
Biographic Data
| ID | 311733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | O A K’akumu |
| GIVEN NAMES | O A |
| FAMILY NAME | K’akumu |
| SIGNATURE | K’AKUMU O A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nairobi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0419-5437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Land use policy in the peri-urban district as Africa's ‘smart authoritarianism’? Exploring emergent governance challenges in the implementation of a mega real estate project at Konza, Kenya
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy
This article tackles the question of unearned increment that accrues to landowners in urban situations in terms of uplifts in land values. Several public policy strategies including planning and tax instruments have been developed, applied, and debated overtime to appropriate this benefit from the hands of private landowners and return to the public in a practice known as land value capture (LVC). This article adds to the on-going debate by under…
Could the State Benefit from Aristophanic Comic Relief? Philosophical Perspectives on Carnal Politics in Postcolonial Uganda
This article is a critical analysis of the anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda, a state in East Africa. It primarily uses Plato's political philosophy as expressed in Aristophanes' speech in the Symposium. Using the Aristophanic viewpoint, the study derived six analytical concepts that structure its findings, discussion and conclusion. These are: the origin and fall of man; all sexual orientations are valid whether lesbian, homosexual or het…
The Rise of the Militarized State? African Developmental Militarism, Public Works Projects, and Praetorian Politics in Kenya
This article analyses the civil-military relations in Kenya in the context of civilian-activated politicization that is taking place the same way it happens in Latin America and the United States under the former Trump administration. In Kenya, this involves the use of the military in noncombat internal missions such as infrastructure development and management of public institutions especially where such institutions are perceived to be ineffici…
Site Value Taxation Policy in Kenya: Unravelling the African Legacy of Georgist Political Economy
Henry George made a remedial call for site value tax paid by the owner of the land based on the potential annual rental value of whatever land is held. Land, in this context, refers to the surface areas of the earth that serve as development sites, especially within urban jurisdictions, and are typically subject to some form of property taxation. Henry George's ideas on land taxation influenced tax policies in countries colonized by the British, …
The Smart City as Policy Concept in the Arab World: A Critical Research into the Strategic Visions of Urban Development in Abu Dhabi
This article reviews the smart city as a policy concept in Abu Dhabi. It conceptualizes smart city development goals into urban and extra-urban and review smart city development programmes in terms of ex-post and ex-ante. Extra-urban refers to development goals that go beyond the spatial or conceptual boundaries of the city. This will help to demonstrate how the pursuit of extra-urban may compromise the attainment of urban development goals. The …
Africa's Urban Fantasy? The Sustainability Question for Konza Technology City
Konza technology city has been proposed as a flagship project in the ICT sector that would propel the Republic of Kenya to the status of a newly industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030. It is billed as a sustainable, eco-friendly and smart city. Taking the perspective of the built environment, this paper evaluates the sustainability claims of the project against the sustainable developme…
Compilations of official statistics in Kenya: Assessing their adequacy for urban policy and governance
Evaluation of the Nairobi-Thika Road Improvement Project in the Context of Inclusive Development
This paper converts the six reasons for inclusive development proposed by Gupta into a heuristic device for evaluation of inclusive development in road infrastructure projects in Nairobi. The Gupta Rationale entails six key evaluative elements of, that is, whether the project has achieved: Welfare of the poor and marginalized, Human rights, Economic Sustainability, Human security and livelihood support, Inclusive decision-making and Non productio…
Militarisation of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi? A localised document analysis of Africa’s ‘fatigue duty’ politics
Involvement of the army in civilian duties is not a unique phenomenon in Africa. This study undertakes a document analysis of this phenomenon in Africa in the case of the President Kenyatta's involvement of military officers in the management of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi to reveal the political meanings it engenders between the military and political elites, and society at large. It localises the analysis in Nairobi city…
Opportunities accruing from the application of public private partnerships in down market urban housing in Kenya
Critical factors affecting affordability of mortgage housing in Kenya
The Production of Artisanal Dimension Stone in Nairobi: A Factor Analytic Study
The study looked at the opportunities and constraints facing artisanal units involved in the production of dimension stone. Twenty-seven observable variables were derived from literature and developed into a questionnaire with prompts to indicate the level of their influence in the input environment of artisanal stone producer organizations. The questionnaire was administered to 148 key stakeholders involved in the production and use of dimension…
Asserting the nature of man as a zoon politikon —the case for a political dimension of sustainable urban development
The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe, Rob Krueger and David Gibbs (eds). Guilford Press, New York, 2007, 310 pp., ISBN 9781593854980, US$30.0
The market environment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya
Reforming the national statistical system of Kenya: Policy implications for the development of building construction statistics
Land use management challenges for the city of Nairobi
Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualization of urban development
In the current sustainable urban development discourse, a distinct school of urban ecology has emerged based on the ecological conceptualization of urban development. Four main theoretical strands can be isolated, viz. urban growth, urban political ecology, ecological footprints of cities, and urban metabolism. This forum paper faults these 'organicist metaphors’ on the score that they shy away from the logical reality of their implications—that …
Strategizing the Decennial Census of Housing for Poverty Reduction in Kenya
As the world gropes for an understanding of and solutions to poverty, one of its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular, and solving it may bring about solutions to other forms of poverty. One of the strategies that can be used to promote the understanding of housing poverty, and hence show the way to its reduction, is the decennial census of housing. This essay intends…
The dynamics and implications of residential segregation in Nairobi
Evaluation of housing statistics in Kenya
Privatization of the urban water supply in Kenya: Policy options for the poor
This paper considers how the government of Kenya’s plans to privatize water supplies in urban areas could ensure that the needs of those living in informal settlements and of others with inadequate water provision are served. The need for reform in the water sector is evident from the years of poor performance and the growing numbers lacking piped provision. The government has chosen privatization as the main policy direction. However, privatizat…
The problems of project implementation
The dynamics and implications of residential segregation in Nairobi
Privatization of the urban water supply in Kenya: Policy options for the poor
This paper considers how the government of Kenya’s plans to privatize water supplies in urban areas could ensure that the needs of those living in informal settlements and of others with inadequate water provision are served. The need for reform in the water sector is evident from the years of poor performance and the growing numbers lacking piped provision. The government has chosen privatization as the main policy direction. However, privatizat…
Evaluation of housing statistics in Kenya
The problems of project implementation
Africa's Urban Fantasy? The Sustainability Question for Konza Technology City
Konza technology city has been proposed as a flagship project in the ICT sector that would propel the Republic of Kenya to the status of a newly industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030. It is billed as a sustainable, eco-friendly and smart city. Taking the perspective of the built environment, this paper evaluates the sustainability claims of the project against the sustainable developme…
Reforming the national statistical system of Kenya: Policy implications for the development of building construction statistics
Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualization of urban development
In the current sustainable urban development discourse, a distinct school of urban ecology has emerged based on the ecological conceptualization of urban development. Four main theoretical strands can be isolated, viz. urban growth, urban political ecology, ecological footprints of cities, and urban metabolism. This forum paper faults these 'organicist metaphors’ on the score that they shy away from the logical reality of their implications—that …
Strategizing the Decennial Census of Housing for Poverty Reduction in Kenya
As the world gropes for an understanding of and solutions to poverty, one of its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular, and solving it may bring about solutions to other forms of poverty. One of the strategies that can be used to promote the understanding of housing poverty, and hence show the way to its reduction, is the decennial census of housing. This essay intends…
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy
This article tackles the question of unearned increment that accrues to landowners in urban situations in terms of uplifts in land values. Several public policy strategies including planning and tax instruments have been developed, applied, and debated overtime to appropriate this benefit from the hands of private landowners and return to the public in a practice known as land value capture (LVC). This article adds to the on-going debate by under…
The Rise of the Militarized State? African Developmental Militarism, Public Works Projects, and Praetorian Politics in Kenya
This article analyses the civil-military relations in Kenya in the context of civilian-activated politicization that is taking place the same way it happens in Latin America and the United States under the former Trump administration. In Kenya, this involves the use of the military in noncombat internal missions such as infrastructure development and management of public institutions especially where such institutions are perceived to be ineffici…
Site Value Taxation Policy in Kenya: Unravelling the African Legacy of Georgist Political Economy
Henry George made a remedial call for site value tax paid by the owner of the land based on the potential annual rental value of whatever land is held. Land, in this context, refers to the surface areas of the earth that serve as development sites, especially within urban jurisdictions, and are typically subject to some form of property taxation. Henry George's ideas on land taxation influenced tax policies in countries colonized by the British, …
Compilations of official statistics in Kenya: Assessing their adequacy for urban policy and governance
Evaluation of the Nairobi-Thika Road Improvement Project in the Context of Inclusive Development
This paper converts the six reasons for inclusive development proposed by Gupta into a heuristic device for evaluation of inclusive development in road infrastructure projects in Nairobi. The Gupta Rationale entails six key evaluative elements of, that is, whether the project has achieved: Welfare of the poor and marginalized, Human rights, Economic Sustainability, Human security and livelihood support, Inclusive decision-making and Non productio…
Militarisation of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi? A localised document analysis of Africa’s ‘fatigue duty’ politics
Involvement of the army in civilian duties is not a unique phenomenon in Africa. This study undertakes a document analysis of this phenomenon in Africa in the case of the President Kenyatta's involvement of military officers in the management of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi to reveal the political meanings it engenders between the military and political elites, and society at large. It localises the analysis in Nairobi city…
Critical factors affecting affordability of mortgage housing in Kenya
Asserting the nature of man as a zoon politikon —the case for a political dimension of sustainable urban development
The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe, Rob Krueger and David Gibbs (eds). Guilford Press, New York, 2007, 310 pp., ISBN 9781593854980, US$30.0
The problems of project implementation
Privatization of the urban water supply in Kenya: Policy options for the poor
This paper considers how the government of Kenya’s plans to privatize water supplies in urban areas could ensure that the needs of those living in informal settlements and of others with inadequate water provision are served. The need for reform in the water sector is evident from the years of poor performance and the growing numbers lacking piped provision. The government has chosen privatization as the main policy direction. However, privatizat…
Evaluation of housing statistics in Kenya
Land use management challenges for the city of Nairobi
Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualization of urban development
In the current sustainable urban development discourse, a distinct school of urban ecology has emerged based on the ecological conceptualization of urban development. Four main theoretical strands can be isolated, viz. urban growth, urban political ecology, ecological footprints of cities, and urban metabolism. This forum paper faults these 'organicist metaphors’ on the score that they shy away from the logical reality of their implications—that …
Strategizing the Decennial Census of Housing for Poverty Reduction in Kenya
As the world gropes for an understanding of and solutions to poverty, one of its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular, and solving it may bring about solutions to other forms of poverty. One of the strategies that can be used to promote the understanding of housing poverty, and hence show the way to its reduction, is the decennial census of housing. This essay intends…
The dynamics and implications of residential segregation in Nairobi
Reforming the national statistical system of Kenya: Policy implications for the development of building construction statistics
Asserting the nature of man as a zoon politikon —the case for a political dimension of sustainable urban development
The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe, Rob Krueger and David Gibbs (eds). Guilford Press, New York, 2007, 310 pp., ISBN 9781593854980, US$30.0
The market environment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya
The Production of Artisanal Dimension Stone in Nairobi: A Factor Analytic Study
The study looked at the opportunities and constraints facing artisanal units involved in the production of dimension stone. Twenty-seven observable variables were derived from literature and developed into a questionnaire with prompts to indicate the level of their influence in the input environment of artisanal stone producer organizations. The questionnaire was administered to 148 key stakeholders involved in the production and use of dimension…
Critical factors affecting affordability of mortgage housing in Kenya
Opportunities accruing from the application of public private partnerships in down market urban housing in Kenya
Militarisation of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi? A localised document analysis of Africa’s ‘fatigue duty’ politics
Involvement of the army in civilian duties is not a unique phenomenon in Africa. This study undertakes a document analysis of this phenomenon in Africa in the case of the President Kenyatta's involvement of military officers in the management of municipal service provision in metropolitan Nairobi to reveal the political meanings it engenders between the military and political elites, and society at large. It localises the analysis in Nairobi city…
Compilations of official statistics in Kenya: Assessing their adequacy for urban policy and governance
Evaluation of the Nairobi-Thika Road Improvement Project in the Context of Inclusive Development
This paper converts the six reasons for inclusive development proposed by Gupta into a heuristic device for evaluation of inclusive development in road infrastructure projects in Nairobi. The Gupta Rationale entails six key evaluative elements of, that is, whether the project has achieved: Welfare of the poor and marginalized, Human rights, Economic Sustainability, Human security and livelihood support, Inclusive decision-making and Non productio…
Land use policy in the peri-urban district as Africa's ‘smart authoritarianism’? Exploring emergent governance challenges in the implementation of a mega real estate project at Konza, Kenya
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy
This article tackles the question of unearned increment that accrues to landowners in urban situations in terms of uplifts in land values. Several public policy strategies including planning and tax instruments have been developed, applied, and debated overtime to appropriate this benefit from the hands of private landowners and return to the public in a practice known as land value capture (LVC). This article adds to the on-going debate by under…
Could the State Benefit from Aristophanic Comic Relief? Philosophical Perspectives on Carnal Politics in Postcolonial Uganda
This article is a critical analysis of the anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda, a state in East Africa. It primarily uses Plato's political philosophy as expressed in Aristophanes' speech in the Symposium. Using the Aristophanic viewpoint, the study derived six analytical concepts that structure its findings, discussion and conclusion. These are: the origin and fall of man; all sexual orientations are valid whether lesbian, homosexual or het…
The Rise of the Militarized State? African Developmental Militarism, Public Works Projects, and Praetorian Politics in Kenya
This article analyses the civil-military relations in Kenya in the context of civilian-activated politicization that is taking place the same way it happens in Latin America and the United States under the former Trump administration. In Kenya, this involves the use of the military in noncombat internal missions such as infrastructure development and management of public institutions especially where such institutions are perceived to be ineffici…
Site Value Taxation Policy in Kenya: Unravelling the African Legacy of Georgist Political Economy
Henry George made a remedial call for site value tax paid by the owner of the land based on the potential annual rental value of whatever land is held. Land, in this context, refers to the surface areas of the earth that serve as development sites, especially within urban jurisdictions, and are typically subject to some form of property taxation. Henry George's ideas on land taxation influenced tax policies in countries colonized by the British, …
The Smart City as Policy Concept in the Arab World: A Critical Research into the Strategic Visions of Urban Development in Abu Dhabi
This article reviews the smart city as a policy concept in Abu Dhabi. It conceptualizes smart city development goals into urban and extra-urban and review smart city development programmes in terms of ex-post and ex-ante. Extra-urban refers to development goals that go beyond the spatial or conceptual boundaries of the city. This will help to demonstrate how the pursuit of extra-urban may compromise the attainment of urban development goals. The …
Africa's Urban Fantasy? The Sustainability Question for Konza Technology City
Konza technology city has been proposed as a flagship project in the ICT sector that would propel the Republic of Kenya to the status of a newly industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030. It is billed as a sustainable, eco-friendly and smart city. Taking the perspective of the built environment, this paper evaluates the sustainability claims of the project against the sustainable developme…
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