Ong''Ao P Ng''Asike

Biographic Data

ID90677
NAMEOng''Ao P Ng''Asike
GIVEN NAMESOng''Ao P
FAMILY NAMENg''Asike
SIGNATUREASIKE O A P N
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR1
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Brokerage in the borderlands

    Ong''Ao P Ng''Asike, O Philemon Ng''Asike et al.ARTICLEJournal of Eastern African Studies2021Cited by: 3References: 42

    This article argues that brokers are key actors in the cross-border livestock trade between Kenya and Somalia, where formal regulations are weak or absent. We elucidate the economic and social rationales for livestock brokerage as well as a series of brokering practices taking place at the intersection of profit making, kinship and trust. Besides producing social capital based on trust, brokers facilitate the formalization of livestock trading by…