Steve Ouma Akoth
Biographic Data
| ID | 82240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Ouma Akoth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve Ouma |
| FAMILY NAME | Akoth |
| SIGNATURE | AKOTH S O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of Eastern Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions
In this introduction to the special issue on massive urbanisation, the collective that has prepared this issue reviews the thinking and experiences that have been important to them. The reflections centre on the use of 'massive' in Jamaican patois, where it has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity to the real conditions taking place, a sense of extreme self-inflation beyond reason. On the other,…
The role of Indigenous knowledge: Practices and values in promoting socio-economic well-being and equity among Endorois community of Kenya
The role played by Indigenous knowledge (IK) cannot be underestimated. Besides IK firming the individual and community’s distinctiveness, its beliefs and practices are credited for holding strong cultural and social obligation on its members to promote well-being. In the wake of colonialism and subsequent capitalism, Indigenous practices and values have continued to crumble, leading to massive inequalities, poverty and ecological destruction. The…
Propulsions
This essay foregrounds mobility in cities in the global South in order to recast our current understanding of how informal settlements function and how residents of these neighborhoods navigate increasingly feral economies. Focusing largely on an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, the piece explores the social worlds animated by mobility, bringing renewed attention to social and spatial practices. These include strategies of economic and soci…
Land as culture: Discourse and narratives of land claims in postcolonial Kenya
The most recent legal and human rights histories of postcolonial Africa straddle visions that promote United Nations-centred human rights as the basis of the new nation, and another that promotes an amalgam between culture and these UN-centred human rights. In a number of African countries, these multiple visions of rights have been most manifest in matters related to land relations and governance in the context of states that have largely retain…
Positioning and making citizenship through Obama K'Ogelo Cultural Festivals in Siaya County, Kenya
This paper examines how cultural festivals are used as both symbols and instruments for producing and claiming citizenship in Kenya. It analyses in particular the Obama K’Ogelo Cultural Festival, held in 2008 and 2010, to commemorate the election and presidency of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America (U.S.A.). The two events were used in the first place to position President Obama in Kenya. More importantly, I argue …
African legal theory and contemporary problems
Oche Onazi's edited volume is certainly refreshing. Although written in our times, it is perhaps by avoiding what are often called the post-colonial and post-structural approaches to scholarship that Onazi and the contributors to this collection have been able to develop it in such a clear manner. It is around Homi Bhabha's theoretical construct that the book unfolds, to give ontological priority to the phenomenon of cultural difference between t…
World of human rights: Ambiguities of rights claiming in Africa
Human rights critique in post-colonial Africa: Practices among Luo in Western Kenya
This paper is written at a time when post-colonial Kenya has largely embraced the language of rights as both a means and an end to organising twenty-first century states and societies. The idea of rights traverses the human rights discourse as theory and builds on notions of ethnography of the particular. The post-colonial African subjects of human rights develop these notions of human rights by living a life of betwixt: by mingling the “modern” …
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father: The other Barack
Journal Article The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father: The other Barack Get access The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father: The other Barack, by Sally H. Jacobs. Philadelphia, PA: PublicAffairs, 2011. 304 pp. $27.99 (hardback). ISBN 978 1 58648 793 5. Steve Ouma Akoth Steve Ouma Akoth University of the Western Cape [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Aff…
The meanings of Obama in K'ogello: Culture, ethno-politics and the making of leaders in multiparty Kenya
This article examines how different groups of Kenyans appropriated, publicised, and sought to harness the candidature and later the presidency of Barack Obama. On the one hand is the appropriation of Obama in the community of Luo ‘indigenes’ living in K'ogello village in western Kenya. On the other hand is a more ‘cosmopolitan’ audience at the University of Nairobi in Kenya's capital city, which is indicative of Kenya's ethnic diversity. The two …
Positioning and making citizenship through Obama K'Ogelo Cultural Festivals in Siaya County, Kenya
This paper examines how cultural festivals are used as both symbols and instruments for producing and claiming citizenship in Kenya. It analyses in particular the Obama K’Ogelo Cultural Festival, held in 2008 and 2010, to commemorate the election and presidency of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America (U.S.A.). The two events were used in the first place to position President Obama in Kenya. More importantly, I argue …
Land as culture: Discourse and narratives of land claims in postcolonial Kenya
The most recent legal and human rights histories of postcolonial Africa straddle visions that promote United Nations-centred human rights as the basis of the new nation, and another that promotes an amalgam between culture and these UN-centred human rights. In a number of African countries, these multiple visions of rights have been most manifest in matters related to land relations and governance in the context of states that have largely retain…
World of human rights: Ambiguities of rights claiming in Africa
The meanings of Obama in K'ogello: Culture, ethno-politics and the making of leaders in multiparty Kenya
This article examines how different groups of Kenyans appropriated, publicised, and sought to harness the candidature and later the presidency of Barack Obama. On the one hand is the appropriation of Obama in the community of Luo ‘indigenes’ living in K'ogello village in western Kenya. On the other hand is a more ‘cosmopolitan’ audience at the University of Nairobi in Kenya's capital city, which is indicative of Kenya's ethnic diversity. The two …
The meanings of Obama in K'ogello: Culture, ethno-politics and the making of leaders in multiparty Kenya
This article examines how different groups of Kenyans appropriated, publicised, and sought to harness the candidature and later the presidency of Barack Obama. On the one hand is the appropriation of Obama in the community of Luo ‘indigenes’ living in K'ogello village in western Kenya. On the other hand is a more ‘cosmopolitan’ audience at the University of Nairobi in Kenya's capital city, which is indicative of Kenya's ethnic diversity. The two …
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father: The other Barack
Journal Article The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father: The other Barack Get access The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father: The other Barack, by Sally H. Jacobs. Philadelphia, PA: PublicAffairs, 2011. 304 pp. $27.99 (hardback). ISBN 978 1 58648 793 5. Steve Ouma Akoth Steve Ouma Akoth University of the Western Cape [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Aff…
World of human rights: Ambiguities of rights claiming in Africa
Human rights critique in post-colonial Africa: Practices among Luo in Western Kenya
This paper is written at a time when post-colonial Kenya has largely embraced the language of rights as both a means and an end to organising twenty-first century states and societies. The idea of rights traverses the human rights discourse as theory and builds on notions of ethnography of the particular. The post-colonial African subjects of human rights develop these notions of human rights by living a life of betwixt: by mingling the “modern” …
African legal theory and contemporary problems
Oche Onazi's edited volume is certainly refreshing. Although written in our times, it is perhaps by avoiding what are often called the post-colonial and post-structural approaches to scholarship that Onazi and the contributors to this collection have been able to develop it in such a clear manner. It is around Homi Bhabha's theoretical construct that the book unfolds, to give ontological priority to the phenomenon of cultural difference between t…
Positioning and making citizenship through Obama K'Ogelo Cultural Festivals in Siaya County, Kenya
This paper examines how cultural festivals are used as both symbols and instruments for producing and claiming citizenship in Kenya. It analyses in particular the Obama K’Ogelo Cultural Festival, held in 2008 and 2010, to commemorate the election and presidency of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America (U.S.A.). The two events were used in the first place to position President Obama in Kenya. More importantly, I argue …
Land as culture: Discourse and narratives of land claims in postcolonial Kenya
The most recent legal and human rights histories of postcolonial Africa straddle visions that promote United Nations-centred human rights as the basis of the new nation, and another that promotes an amalgam between culture and these UN-centred human rights. In a number of African countries, these multiple visions of rights have been most manifest in matters related to land relations and governance in the context of states that have largely retain…
Propulsions
This essay foregrounds mobility in cities in the global South in order to recast our current understanding of how informal settlements function and how residents of these neighborhoods navigate increasingly feral economies. Focusing largely on an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, the piece explores the social worlds animated by mobility, bringing renewed attention to social and spatial practices. These include strategies of economic and soci…
The role of Indigenous knowledge: Practices and values in promoting socio-economic well-being and equity among Endorois community of Kenya
The role played by Indigenous knowledge (IK) cannot be underestimated. Besides IK firming the individual and community’s distinctiveness, its beliefs and practices are credited for holding strong cultural and social obligation on its members to promote well-being. In the wake of colonialism and subsequent capitalism, Indigenous practices and values have continued to crumble, leading to massive inequalities, poverty and ecological destruction. The…
The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions
In this introduction to the special issue on massive urbanisation, the collective that has prepared this issue reviews the thinking and experiences that have been important to them. The reflections centre on the use of 'massive' in Jamaican patois, where it has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity to the real conditions taking place, a sense of extreme self-inflation beyond reason. On the other,…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works)