Godwin R Murunga
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Godwin R Murunga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Godwin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Murunga |
| SIGNATURE | MURUNGA G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prof. Abdalla Bujra, (1938–2025) Codesria’s Towering Pillar
CODESRIA is fifty-two years old. Although it was formally established in 1973, its ideational origins date back to a conference held in Bellagio, Italy in 1964 on ‘Economic Research in Africa’. Among the ten directors of African-based research institutes invited, only two were African: Professor Adebola Onitiri from the Nigerian Institute of Economic and Social Research at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and Professor Omer Osman, then dean of…
Professeur Abdalla Bujra, (1938–2025) Le pilier gigantesque du Codesria
Le CODESRIA a cinquante-deux ans. O8iciellement créé en 1973, ses origines remontent, cependant, à une conférence tenue en 1964, à Bellagio (Italie), sur le thème « La recherche économique en Afrique ». Des dix directeurs d’instituts africains de recherche invités, seuls deux étaient africains : le professeur Adebola Onitiri, de l’Institut nigérian de recherche économique et sociale de l’Université d’Ibadan (Nigéria), et le professeur Omer Osman,…
A Library is Gone: Tribute to Professor Momar-Coumba Diop, (1951–2024)
Une bibliothèque s’en est allée: Hommage au Professeur Momar-Coumba Diop, (1951–2024)
Note to the Community
Note to the Community
From the Executive Secretary’s Desk
Codesria Tribute to the Abuja Memorial in Honour of Professor Abubakar Momoh
From the Desk of the Executive Secretary
Statement on the passing on of Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, 1954-2017
Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020): Scholar, Mentor and Institution Builder
Codesria’s Meaning-making Research Initiative (MRI): A Note
Godwin Murunga, Ato Kwamena Onoma & Ibrahim Oanda Ogachi
Amphiregulin modifies the Minnesota Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease Risk Score: Results from BMT CTN 0302/0802
Key Points High-circulating AREG (≥33 pg/mL) reclassifies additional patients into HR categories and further refines the Minnesota aGVHD risk score. Patients with aGVHD and AREG ≥33 pg/mL have lower rates of steroid response, higher NRM, and poorer OS.
Introduction
This introductory article explains the origins of this special issue initiative in the work of a select number of African graduate students in the US. It locates the different articles included in the volume in the general framework of debates about the imbalances in knowledge production on Africa between the global North and South. It highlights the issue of the role which the fourth generation of African scholars is to play in these politics. I…
The Kenya General Elections: Troubling Political Propaganda in an Intellectual Garb
Tribute to a Committed Intellectual
Let the People Speak: Tanzania Down the Road to Neo-Liberalism by Issa G. ShivjiCODESRIA, 2006, xiii+303pp., ISBN: 2-86978-183-0 (pbk) Let the People Speak was Issa Gulamhussein Shivji’s last book before his retirement from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2006. Retiring at the age of 60, he had by then served the University’s Faculty of Law for 36 uninterrupted years. He distinguished himself as a thorough intellectual whose work reflected a c…
Some Comments on the Mafeje–Moore Debate
Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links Between African and Black Studies
Black identity and nationalism in the civil rights era were forged through trans- Atlantic and Pan-African solidarity. Both African and African-American intel- lectuals and institutions played key roles in Pan-African nationalism and the sustenance of civil rights struggles across the Atlantic. However, in the 1970s onwards, these Pan-African links were subverted by vertical dialogues between western, especially white, ‘experts’ of Africa and Afr…
L’argumentation sur le Mungiki et la retraditionnalisation de la société: Une quête de reconnaissance
Bent on self-destruction: The Kibaki regime in Kenya
“Inherently Unhygienic Races”: Plague and the Origins of Settler Dominance in Nairobi, 1899–1907
[T]he Indian is not happy with a sufficiency of space and unpolluted air, but that he is most pleased when he lives huddled together with numerous others like bees in a hive. He appears to be averse to daylight and fresh air, and indeed to all that is good in matter of sanitation.” —Medical Officer of Health, J. T. C. Johnson, 11 May 1908 The notion of inherently unhygienic races is gleaned from reports and correspondence among European colonial …
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates hi…
Conict in Somalia and Crime in Kenya: Understanding the Trans-Territoriality of Crime
Ethnicity, Community Relations and Civil Society in Contemporary Kenya: Trends and Field Experiences
No abstract
Urban Violence in Kenya's Transition to Pluralist Politics, 1982-1992
Dans plusieurs parties de l'Afrique on note une escalade de la violence urbaine. Les études théoriques à ce sujet n'abordent principalement que les manifestations de violence dans les quartiers pauvres, et la criminalité urbaine avec ses actes de violence. Il y a un besoin urgent de focaliser l'attention sur les causes historiques de la violence urbaine en rapport avec la gestion des affaires publiques. Ce document examine les causes et la manife…
Bent on self-destruction: The Kibaki regime in Kenya
Conict in Somalia and Crime in Kenya: Understanding the Trans-Territoriality of Crime
Urban Violence in Kenya's Transition to Pluralist Politics, 1982-1992
Dans plusieurs parties de l'Afrique on note une escalade de la violence urbaine. Les études théoriques à ce sujet n'abordent principalement que les manifestations de violence dans les quartiers pauvres, et la criminalité urbaine avec ses actes de violence. Il y a un besoin urgent de focaliser l'attention sur les causes historiques de la violence urbaine en rapport avec la gestion des affaires publiques. Ce document examine les causes et la manife…
Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links Between African and Black Studies
Black identity and nationalism in the civil rights era were forged through trans- Atlantic and Pan-African solidarity. Both African and African-American intel- lectuals and institutions played key roles in Pan-African nationalism and the sustenance of civil rights struggles across the Atlantic. However, in the 1970s onwards, these Pan-African links were subverted by vertical dialogues between western, especially white, ‘experts’ of Africa and Afr…
The Kenya General Elections: Troubling Political Propaganda in an Intellectual Garb
Urban Violence in Kenya's Transition to Pluralist Politics, 1982-1992
Dans plusieurs parties de l'Afrique on note une escalade de la violence urbaine. Les études théoriques à ce sujet n'abordent principalement que les manifestations de violence dans les quartiers pauvres, et la criminalité urbaine avec ses actes de violence. Il y a un besoin urgent de focaliser l'attention sur les causes historiques de la violence urbaine en rapport avec la gestion des affaires publiques. Ce document examine les causes et la manife…
Ethnicity, Community Relations and Civil Society in Contemporary Kenya: Trends and Field Experiences
No abstract
“Inherently Unhygienic Races”: Plague and the Origins of Settler Dominance in Nairobi, 1899–1907
[T]he Indian is not happy with a sufficiency of space and unpolluted air, but that he is most pleased when he lives huddled together with numerous others like bees in a hive. He appears to be averse to daylight and fresh air, and indeed to all that is good in matter of sanitation.” —Medical Officer of Health, J. T. C. Johnson, 11 May 1908 The notion of inherently unhygienic races is gleaned from reports and correspondence among European colonial …
African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective
This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates hi…
Conict in Somalia and Crime in Kenya: Understanding the Trans-Territoriality of Crime
L’argumentation sur le Mungiki et la retraditionnalisation de la société: Une quête de reconnaissance
Bent on self-destruction: The Kibaki regime in Kenya
Tribute to a Committed Intellectual
Let the People Speak: Tanzania Down the Road to Neo-Liberalism by Issa G. ShivjiCODESRIA, 2006, xiii+303pp., ISBN: 2-86978-183-0 (pbk) Let the People Speak was Issa Gulamhussein Shivji’s last book before his retirement from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2006. Retiring at the age of 60, he had by then served the University’s Faculty of Law for 36 uninterrupted years. He distinguished himself as a thorough intellectual whose work reflected a c…
Some Comments on the Mafeje–Moore Debate
Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links Between African and Black Studies
Black identity and nationalism in the civil rights era were forged through trans- Atlantic and Pan-African solidarity. Both African and African-American intel- lectuals and institutions played key roles in Pan-African nationalism and the sustenance of civil rights struggles across the Atlantic. However, in the 1970s onwards, these Pan-African links were subverted by vertical dialogues between western, especially white, ‘experts’ of Africa and Afr…
Introduction
This introductory article explains the origins of this special issue initiative in the work of a select number of African graduate students in the US. It locates the different articles included in the volume in the general framework of debates about the imbalances in knowledge production on Africa between the global North and South. It highlights the issue of the role which the fourth generation of African scholars is to play in these politics. I…
The Kenya General Elections: Troubling Political Propaganda in an Intellectual Garb
Amphiregulin modifies the Minnesota Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease Risk Score: Results from BMT CTN 0302/0802
Key Points High-circulating AREG (≥33 pg/mL) reclassifies additional patients into HR categories and further refines the Minnesota aGVHD risk score. Patients with aGVHD and AREG ≥33 pg/mL have lower rates of steroid response, higher NRM, and poorer OS.
From the Executive Secretary’s Desk
Codesria Tribute to the Abuja Memorial in Honour of Professor Abubakar Momoh
From the Desk of the Executive Secretary
Statement on the passing on of Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, 1954-2017
Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020): Scholar, Mentor and Institution Builder
Codesria’s Meaning-making Research Initiative (MRI): A Note
Godwin Murunga, Ato Kwamena Onoma & Ibrahim Oanda Ogachi
Note to the Community
Note to the Community
A Library is Gone: Tribute to Professor Momar-Coumba Diop, (1951–2024)
Une bibliothèque s’en est allée: Hommage au Professeur Momar-Coumba Diop, (1951–2024)
Prof. Abdalla Bujra, (1938–2025) Codesria’s Towering Pillar
CODESRIA is fifty-two years old. Although it was formally established in 1973, its ideational origins date back to a conference held in Bellagio, Italy in 1964 on ‘Economic Research in Africa’. Among the ten directors of African-based research institutes invited, only two were African: Professor Adebola Onitiri from the Nigerian Institute of Economic and Social Research at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and Professor Omer Osman, then dean of…
Professeur Abdalla Bujra, (1938–2025) Le pilier gigantesque du Codesria
Le CODESRIA a cinquante-deux ans. O8iciellement créé en 1973, ses origines remontent, cependant, à une conférence tenue en 1964, à Bellagio (Italie), sur le thème « La recherche économique en Afrique ». Des dix directeurs d’instituts africains de recherche invités, seuls deux étaient africains : le professeur Adebola Onitiri, de l’Institut nigérian de recherche économique et sociale de l’Université d’Ibadan (Nigéria), et le professeur Omer Osman,…
Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)