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The Matatu Read Along
Author | : Eric Walters |
Publsiher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781459815995 |
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This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Kioko had been watching the matatus come and go for as long as he could remember. But today, for his fifth birthday, he climbs aboard one with his grandfather. As the matatu pulls away from the market, the village dogs chase after them. When Kioko asks his grandfather why the dogs always bark and chase after matatus, his grandfather tells him an entertaining tale about a dog, a goat and a sheep. Set in East Africa, The Matatu is a colorful story filled with many unexpected turns and twists along the way.
Matatu
Author | : Kenda Mutongi |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226471426 |
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This prize-winning study “takes a unique ethnographic approach to reconstructing the history of Nairobi’s privately owned urban transport” (Martin A. Klein Prize Committee, American Historical Association). Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus—colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or extravagantly colored, sporting names, slogans, and airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto the socioeconomic and political conditions of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs, they reflect divergent aspects of Kenyan life—from rapid urbanization and the transition to democracy to organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, and popular culture. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu and explore the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.
Negotiating Social Space
Author | : Patrick O. Alila,Poul O. Pedersen |
Publsiher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Small business |
ISBN | : 0865439648 |
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Small and micro enterprises have been an important theme in development thinking since 1950s, yet for a variety of reasons East African governments and administrations have been sceptical about their role in their own countries' development. While many constraints have been lifted by the more liberal policies of the 1990s, many micro entrepreneurs and their labourers, primarily women, are still fighting for an enlarged social space. The papers in this book describe these strategies of negotiation between rural micro enterprises and the new liberalised rural economy.
Informal Public Transport in Practice
Author | : Meleckidzedeck Khayesi,Fredrick Muyia Nafukho |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317116868 |
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Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service, provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic, political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
The Matatu Mode of Public Transport in Metropolitan Nairobi
Author | : Sunita Kapila |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Informal sector (Economics) |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105039753806 |
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The Role of the Matatu in Kenya
Author | : Ndung'u P. Kimani |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Informal sector (Economics) |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105115132974 |
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Sokomoko Popular Culture in East Africa
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-12-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004655980 |
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MATATUs The Vibrant Heartbeat of Kenyan Urban Life
Author | : Matatu Za Jogoo Road |
Publsiher | : Pencil |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2024-04-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9789358832099 |
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Matatu za Jogoo Road" takes readers on a colorful journey through Kenya's urban soul. From their origins as rural transport vehicles to their vibrant presence on matatus in Nairobi, matatus are more than just modes of transportation they are cultural icons. With engaging storytelling and vivid descriptions, this book explores the rich history, dynamic art, and communal spirit of matatus, offering a captivating glimpse into the heart of Kenya's urban life. Whether you're a commuter, traveler, or cultural enthusiast, "Matatu za Jogoo Road" offers an immersive experience into the world of Kenya's iconic matatus.