Mwangi Wa Gĩthĩnji
Biographic Data
| ID | 84388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mwangi Wa Gĩthĩnji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mwangi Wa |
| FAMILY NAME | Gĩthĩnji |
| SIGNATURE | GĨTHĨNJI M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4917-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Migration and the Path to a More Integrated Africa
We live in a world of unprecedented global migrations.Unlike many past largescale migrations, driven by state-sponsored colonizing projects, many of today's migrants are either fleeing trouble at home or chasing better opportunities abroad.African economies endowed with young populations are often both the producers and receivers of migrants.According to recent Afrobarometer surveys, an average of 47 percent of young Africans across twenty-four c…
Dissolving Master Narratives: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume One
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A study of income distribution and development in Kenya
This title was first published in 2000. An analysis of income distribution and development in Kenya, seeking to increase the reader's understanding of the political economy of that country. The author offers three contributions. He provides an estimate of income inequality in Kenya. He presents data on time allocation in Kenya which makes it possible to compare the distribution of work with the distribution of income. Finally, he attempts to cons…
Small farms, smaller plots: Land size, fragmentation, and productivity in Ethiopia
African agriculture is often dominated by smallholder farms composed of multiple plots. In policy circles it is often assumed that fragmentation coupled with small farm size is an impediment to increasing yields and thus decreasing poverty and food insecurity. There also exists an influential literature that explores the inverse relationship between farm size and yield. While there are many studies internationally, few have been conducted in Afri…
Small and Productive: Kenyan Women and Crop Choice
The question of gender differences in agricultural productivity has received particular attention in the development literature. The stylized fact that women produce less than men, while on average occupying smaller farms, presents a quandary as it is also a stylized fact that smaller farms have higher yields per unit of area. Using data from the 2006 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey, this study examines whether there is a gap in output p…
Erasing Class/(Re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya
This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the pervasive view that ethnicity in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally is related to a primordial instinct and attempt to show empirically that ethnicity is used by politicians as a political strategy to maintain power. In the process of using ethnicity, class solidarity is explicitly down played by politician…
Reform and Political Impunity in Kenya: Transparency without Accountability
Kenya has been going through a period of political reform since 1991, when section 2A of the constitution, which had made Kenya a de jure one-party state, was repealed. This reform followed a prolonged struggle on the part of citizens both inside and outside the country, and their call for democracy was one that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was embraced by Western countries. Via diplomatic pressure and conditionality on aid, Western donors…
Excavating for Economics in Africana Studies
For 30 years, Africana Studies has developed as an interdisciplinary field. Although much attention has been paid within the field to the humanities and arts, much less has been paid to the social sciences, particularly economics. This analysis documents the presence of economists and economics course content among Africana Studies programs. The authors also discuss the presence of economists and economic content among leading general interest jo…
Kenya's Hopes and Impediments: The Anatomy of a Crisis of Exclusion
This paper examines the underlying causes of the December 2007, post-election Kenyan crisis. We argue that the crisis is best understood not as simply ethnic rivalry for power but rather as a product of the rising expectations due to the increase in democratic space in the last five years combined with the frustration of over a millennium of exclusion on the economic and political fronts. Kenyan institutions have not accommodated the building of …
Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya
This essay illustrates the power and reach of the new Marxian class analysis when it is applied to the economic development of the third world. Economic development in third world countries has been analyzed, debated, and promoted but the implications of class analysis (in the surplus labor sense) have rarely been explored. This essay will reexamine the concept of the peasantry that has played such an important theoretical role in Marxist theorie…
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Income Distribution and Development in Kenya
Kenya's Hopes and Impediments: The Anatomy of a Crisis of Exclusion
This paper examines the underlying causes of the December 2007, post-election Kenyan crisis. We argue that the crisis is best understood not as simply ethnic rivalry for power but rather as a product of the rising expectations due to the increase in democratic space in the last five years combined with the frustration of over a millennium of exclusion on the economic and political fronts. Kenyan institutions have not accommodated the building of …
Small farms, smaller plots: Land size, fragmentation, and productivity in Ethiopia
African agriculture is often dominated by smallholder farms composed of multiple plots. In policy circles it is often assumed that fragmentation coupled with small farm size is an impediment to increasing yields and thus decreasing poverty and food insecurity. There also exists an influential literature that explores the inverse relationship between farm size and yield. While there are many studies internationally, few have been conducted in Afri…
Reform and Political Impunity in Kenya: Transparency without Accountability
Kenya has been going through a period of political reform since 1991, when section 2A of the constitution, which had made Kenya a de jure one-party state, was repealed. This reform followed a prolonged struggle on the part of citizens both inside and outside the country, and their call for democracy was one that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was embraced by Western countries. Via diplomatic pressure and conditionality on aid, Western donors…
Small and Productive: Kenyan Women and Crop Choice
The question of gender differences in agricultural productivity has received particular attention in the development literature. The stylized fact that women produce less than men, while on average occupying smaller farms, presents a quandary as it is also a stylized fact that smaller farms have higher yields per unit of area. Using data from the 2006 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey, this study examines whether there is a gap in output p…
Erasing Class/(Re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya
This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the pervasive view that ethnicity in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally is related to a primordial instinct and attempt to show empirically that ethnicity is used by politicians as a political strategy to maintain power. In the process of using ethnicity, class solidarity is explicitly down played by politician…
Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya
This essay illustrates the power and reach of the new Marxian class analysis when it is applied to the economic development of the third world. Economic development in third world countries has been analyzed, debated, and promoted but the implications of class analysis (in the surplus labor sense) have rarely been explored. This essay will reexamine the concept of the peasantry that has played such an important theoretical role in Marxist theorie…
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Income Distribution and Development in Kenya
Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya
This essay illustrates the power and reach of the new Marxian class analysis when it is applied to the economic development of the third world. Economic development in third world countries has been analyzed, debated, and promoted but the implications of class analysis (in the surplus labor sense) have rarely been explored. This essay will reexamine the concept of the peasantry that has played such an important theoretical role in Marxist theorie…
Excavating for Economics in Africana Studies
For 30 years, Africana Studies has developed as an interdisciplinary field. Although much attention has been paid within the field to the humanities and arts, much less has been paid to the social sciences, particularly economics. This analysis documents the presence of economists and economics course content among Africana Studies programs. The authors also discuss the presence of economists and economic content among leading general interest jo…
Kenya's Hopes and Impediments: The Anatomy of a Crisis of Exclusion
This paper examines the underlying causes of the December 2007, post-election Kenyan crisis. We argue that the crisis is best understood not as simply ethnic rivalry for power but rather as a product of the rising expectations due to the increase in democratic space in the last five years combined with the frustration of over a millennium of exclusion on the economic and political fronts. Kenyan institutions have not accommodated the building of …
Reform and Political Impunity in Kenya: Transparency without Accountability
Kenya has been going through a period of political reform since 1991, when section 2A of the constitution, which had made Kenya a de jure one-party state, was repealed. This reform followed a prolonged struggle on the part of citizens both inside and outside the country, and their call for democracy was one that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was embraced by Western countries. Via diplomatic pressure and conditionality on aid, Western donors…
Small and Productive: Kenyan Women and Crop Choice
The question of gender differences in agricultural productivity has received particular attention in the development literature. The stylized fact that women produce less than men, while on average occupying smaller farms, presents a quandary as it is also a stylized fact that smaller farms have higher yields per unit of area. Using data from the 2006 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey, this study examines whether there is a gap in output p…
Erasing Class/(Re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya
This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the pervasive view that ethnicity in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally is related to a primordial instinct and attempt to show empirically that ethnicity is used by politicians as a political strategy to maintain power. In the process of using ethnicity, class solidarity is explicitly down played by politician…
Small farms, smaller plots: Land size, fragmentation, and productivity in Ethiopia
African agriculture is often dominated by smallholder farms composed of multiple plots. In policy circles it is often assumed that fragmentation coupled with small farm size is an impediment to increasing yields and thus decreasing poverty and food insecurity. There also exists an influential literature that explores the inverse relationship between farm size and yield. While there are many studies internationally, few have been conducted in Afri…
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A study of income distribution and development in Kenya
This title was first published in 2000. An analysis of income distribution and development in Kenya, seeking to increase the reader's understanding of the political economy of that country. The author offers three contributions. He provides an estimate of income inequality in Kenya. He presents data on time allocation in Kenya which makes it possible to compare the distribution of work with the distribution of income. Finally, he attempts to cons…
Dissolving Master Narratives: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume One
Migration and the Path to a More Integrated Africa
We live in a world of unprecedented global migrations.Unlike many past largescale migrations, driven by state-sponsored colonizing projects, many of today's migrants are either fleeing trouble at home or chasing better opportunities abroad.African economies endowed with young populations are often both the producers and receivers of migrants.According to recent Afrobarometer surveys, an average of 47 percent of young Africans across twenty-four c…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Kenya (3 works)