The Matatu Read-Along
Title | The Matatu Read-Along PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Walters |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1459815998 |
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
Title | Matatu PDF eBook |
Author | Kenda Mutongi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2017-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022647142X |
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
Title | Negotiating Social Space PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O. Alila |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Small business |
ISBN | 9780865439641 |
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.
The Matatu Mode of Public Transport in Metropolitan Nairobi
Title | The Matatu Mode of Public Transport in Metropolitan Nairobi PDF eBook |
Author | Sunita Kapila |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Informal sector (Economics) |
ISBN |
Informal Public Transport in Practice
Title | Informal Public Transport in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Meleckidzedeck Khayesi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317116860 |
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 Role of the Matatu in Kenya
Title | The Role of the Matatu in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Ndung'u P. Kimani |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 70 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Informal sector (Economics) |
ISBN |
Analysis of Terms and Conditions of Work in the Matatu Industry in Kenya
Title | Analysis of Terms and Conditions of Work in the Matatu Industry in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Meleckidzedeck Khayesi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Transport workers |
ISBN |