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• African Academy of Sciences (Nairobi, Kenya)
  'The African Academy of Sciences was conceived on the 6th day of July 1985 when 22 prominent scientists met in Trieste, Italy, at the inauguration of the Third World Academy of Sciences TWAS) and devised the concept of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas R. Odhiambo as the first elected President of the AAS, membership has grown rapidly from the initial 33 members in 1985 to 107 in 1995, representing 24 African countries and 5 countries overseas.'
  
  
• African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international inter-governmental policy research and training organization... The Centre's activities focus on the implementation of Agenda 21 and related conventions on biological diversity, climate change and desertification."
  
  
• African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (via UNESCO, Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The ANSTI/RAIST website -- in English or French -- provides links to activities at institutions all over Africa and offers access to online versions of articles appearing in the network's main publication:
  • African journal of science & technology. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions, 2001--
  
  
• Awaaz. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Awaaz, 2004-
  AWAAZ is affiliated to Eastern Action Club of Africa (EACA) and Asian Foundation.: an online quarterly magazine on South Asians in Kenya and East Africa. "...acts as a catalyst to record the history, and establish linkages with the Indian subcontinent and the South Asian Diaspora in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom."
  
  
• Binyavanga Wainaina -- 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing
  • The Kenyan writer wins the Caine Prize for the best short story, July 2002. Since 2000, the Caine Prize is awarded every year to a work (a short story) by an African writer published in English, in Africa or elsewhere.
  • "Discovering Home": Part 1 of 2. By Binyavanga Wainaina and Part 2 of 2 G21: The world's magazine. (Online) -- UK: Generator 21 Net, 1996-
  • "Binyavanga Wainaina wins the Caine Prize." By Paul Redfern, The East African. (Online). July 22, 2002. -- Nairobi, Kenya: The Nation Newspapers, Ltd. 1996-
  • The Caine Prize for African Writing (UK)
  
  
• Capital FM Radio (Capital Group, Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya)
  The home page of the 98.4 FM radio station in Nairobi, with news and weekly pop music charts in East Africa, programme schedule, and other general information on the contemporary cultural scene in Nairobi.
  
  
• Kenya Coast Bibliography (2000), compiled by Jan Hoorweg -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2007.
  "The first version of this bibliography was published as a chapter in the Kenya Coast Handbook and covered the period up to 1996 (Hoorweg & Hekken 2000). The present digital version has been updated until the year 2000 and contains 1479 titles."
  
  
• Kenya Cooking Recipes
  • Kenya Recipes -- African and Indian (Rich C. Bowen, Lexington, Kentucky)
  • Tim's and Lara Beth's Kenya Page -- Recipes (Timothy F. Bliss; via Embassy of the Republic of Kenya, Washington, DC)
  
  
• Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • General information about FAWE and its activities, plus contact information for national chapters. "The Forum for African Women [FAWE] ... brings together African women ministers in charge of national education systems, women vice chancellors of universities and other senior women policy makers in education in Africa. Founded in 1992, and registered in Kenya as a pan-African NGO in 1993, FAWE has 56 full members drawn from 30 African countries, 25 associate members comprising male ministers of education and permanent secretaries ... to stimulate broad policy reform and create a conducive environment for increasing parental demand for girls' education."
  • FEMSA Project: Female Education in Mathematics and Science in Africa
  
  
• Government of Kenya: The Ministries....Education and Culture
  • Education
  • Gender, Sports, Culture, and Social Service
  • Information and Communications
  • Government--All Institutions and Ministries (via xkenya.com)
  
  
• Images of Colonial Africa (circa 1900-1914) by Laura Neva Collins of the Africa Inland Mission (Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois)
  "The images displayed here are one woman's view, mostly of Kenya, at the beginning of the twentieth century, probably before 1914. They depict the country's society, customs, economics, and geography, as well as its growing Christian church, the missionary community assisting in that endeavor, and Collins herself. Also included are some photographs from Cameroon, the Belgian Congo and Uganda."
  
  
• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "The Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) was established in 1994 as an independent, indigenous and non-partisan private organisation. It is a non-profit body whose primary goal is to pursue quality research-based public policy analysis and to generate non-partisan discussion focused on Kenya and the region."
  • IPAR Publications (esp. discussion & occasional papers) Download abstracts and some titles in full text (PDF or ZIP files).
  
  
• International Bureau of Education = Bureau de l'Education International: Kenya (UNESCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • National report on the development of education in Kenya, March 2001. (Kenya, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. 46th Session of the International Conference on Education, Geneva, 5-8 September, 2001) PDF format.
  • Documents & resources on Kenya (Reports and statistics)
  
  
• Jens Finke's Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya (Olhão, Portugal)
  An extensive collection of texts, bibliographies, and links to information about the history, cultures, and "traditional" music of up to 32 different cultural groups ("tribes") in Kenya, with a clickable map and audio files (excerpted from cassette tapes recorded or purchased in the country during 1998-99). The author is a traveller, photographer, and author.
  
  
• The Kamusi Project: Online English-Swahili/Swahili-English Dictionary and Swahili Learning Resources. (World Documentation Centre, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK)
  
  
• "Kanga & Kitenge: Cloth and Culture in East Africa," Erie Art Museum, September 27, 2008--April 5, 2009 (Erie, Pennsylvania)
  The web site for this art exhibition features images of kanga from the Museum's collections and photographs of kanga and kitenge being used, Swahili inscriptions, etc. ...all in downloadable PowerPoint files.
  
  
• KIPPRA: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "KIPPRA's primary mission is to provide quality public policy advice to the government of Kenya and to the private sector by conducting objective research and analysis and through capacity building in order to contribute to the achievement of national development goals."
  • KIPPRA Publications
    Access --requiring free registration-- to an extensive archive of annual reports, conference proceedings, discussion papers, occasional papers, policy briefs, and working papers, etc.
  
  
• Kenya National Archives (Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service, Nairobi, Kenya)
  General information, lists of services, news about activities and publications, guides to the collections and -- under construction: searchable databases.
  
  
• Kenya National Archives Microfilm Collection at Syracuse University Library -- Guides
  (Syracuse, New York)
  The list of document titles and microfilm reel numbers; plus visitor information. "Syracuse University is one of two repositories of the microfilm collection of the KNA, produced in the 1960's through a joint grant with the National Science Foundation, the government of Kenya, and the Program of Eastern African Studies of Syracuse University (no longer in existence). The other collection is owned by the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago [See: Cooperative Africana Microform Project]. The documents include 157 microfilm reels...and a large number of microfilm reels of newspapers, journals, and papers of assorted associations."
  
  
• Kenya National Library Service (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The web site includes news, activity reports, annual report, information about libraries in the country, donor links, and related issues.
  • "The Challenge of Public Library Systems to Meet Information Needs for Diverse Multi-Cultural Communities: A Case of Mobile Library Service in Kenya" (August 2002) by Richard Masaranga Atuti. 68th IFLA Council and General Conference, August 18-24, 2002, Glasglow, Scotland, UK. (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague, The Netherlands)
  • "Librarianship Endeavors in Kenya" (2008) below.
  
  
• KESSA--Kenya Scholars & Studies Association (USA)
  "The association that brings together scholars and researchers with interest in Kenya." The first inaugural conference was held in August 1-2, 2008 at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
  
  
• KenyaWeb on Education (Anthony Kagotho et al., Weblink Services, Ltd., Nairobi)
  This section of a larger Kenya web site provides descriptions and contact information for primary, secondary, and higher institutions of learning in Kenya.
  
  
• KISS 100 FM Radio (Nairobi, Kenya)
  The web site for the Kenyan entertainment radio station, with live listening!
  
  
• "Librarianship Endeavors in Kenya" (Spring 2008) Part of: AAMES newsletter. (Online) -- Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section, American Library Association, 2003- 8 pages in PDF format
  
  
• The Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya (United States. The Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
  This site offers information about the operations of the LC Office and its cooperative acquisitions program for US libraries.
  
  
• Maasai Language Project (Doris L. Payne et al., Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
  The web site offers a description of the project and a set of texts on the history and major features of the Maa language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania.
  
  
• "The Meanings of Popular Culture: Perspectives from the East African Coast," July 21-23, 2006, Mombasa, Kenya. Hosted and coordinated by the School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad, Swahili Resource Center in Mombasa, The Council on African Studies at Yale University, and others. (via Andrew Eisenberg, Columbia University)
  The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2006!

  
  
• National Museums of Kenya Web Page (Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Rift Valley Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "...an independent association based in Kenya and the United Kingdom. The Institute was established in 2001 to support research, publishing and educational initiatives in the African Rift Valley region. Fellows of the Institute include academic specialists from Africa, Europe and the Americas and local and international practitioners in the fields of aid, development, environmental conservation and human rights."
  • Sudan Abduction & Slavery Project, 1983-2003
  • See also: Sudan Open Archive
  
  
• Swahili Language Resources on the Internet. (via Columbia University)
  See also: The Kamusi Project: Online English-Swahili/Swahili-English dictionary above.
  
  
  
• UNESCO Nairobi -- Eastern Africa Regional Office (Kenya)
  This website features news, conference announcements, and reports on education in Kenya and other countries in Eastern Africa: Burundi, Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda.
  
  
• Kenyan Universities on the Web
  • Kenyatta University, Nairobi
    
  • Moi University, Eldoret
    
  • United States International University, Nairobi
    
  • University of Nairobi
    See also: University of Nairobi Libraries and the online catalogue.
  
  
• University of California Press eScholarship Editions (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California)
  • The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from 'harambee!' to 'nyayo!'. By Jennifer A. Widner. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1992).
  • When we began, there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya. By Jeffrey A. Fadiman. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1993).