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Journal articles on the topic "Missions – Kenya – History"
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Wamagatta, Evanson. "Changes of Government Policies Towards Mission Education in Colonial Kenya and Their Effects on the Missions: The Case of the Gospel Missionary Society." Journal of Religion in Africa 38, no. 1 (2008): 3–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006608x262692.
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AbstractBefore the First World War, the provision and management of African education was almost entirely in the hands of the missionaries. After the war, the government enacted a series of laws that were designed to improve the quality of education. However, the new policies placed a heavy financial burden on the missions, which found it difficult to function without government grants. This paper analyzes the effects of government education policies on the fluctuating fortunes of the Gospel Missionary Society (GMS). It shows that, although the GMS was not opposed to the grants, its small size and faith basis made it impossible to meet the government's conditions for receiving the grants. The government's pressure and the mission's inability to implement the policies eventually forced the GMS to withdraw from the mission field altogether, and that is why there are today no schools or churches associated with it in Kenya. The paper is based on secondary sources and primary materials obtained from the Kenya National Archives (KNA) and the GMS's and other missionary societies' archives.
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Hastings, Adrian, Lawrence M. Njoroge, and Stanislaus C. Muyebe. "A Century of Catholic Endeavour: Holy Ghost and Consolata Missions in Kenya." Journal of Religion in Africa 31, no. 3 (August 2001): 364. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1581616.
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Mundan, Victor, Margaret Muiva, and Samuel Kimani. "Physiological, Behavioral, and Dietary Characteristics Associated with Hypertension among Kenyan Defence Forces." ISRN Preventive Medicine 2013 (May 28, 2013): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2013/740143.
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Background. Hypertensive disease is increasing in developing countries due to nutritional transition and westernization. Hypertensive disease among Kenya military may be lower because of health-focused recruitment, physical activities, routine checkups, and health awareness and management, but the disease has been increasing. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine physiological, behavioral, and dietary characteristics associated with hypertension among Kenyan military. Methods. A cross-sectional study involving 340 participants was conducted at Armed Forces Memorial Hospital. Participants' history, risk factors assessment, and dietary patterns were obtained by structured questionnaire, while physiological and anthropometric parameters were measured. Results. Hypertensive participants were likely to have higher age, physiological, and anthropometric measurements, and they participated in peace missions. Daily alcohol and smoking, frequent red meat, and inadequate fruits and vegetables were associated with hypertension. Conclusions. The findings mimic the main risk factors and characteristics for hypertensive disease in developed countries whose lifestyle adoption is happening fast in low and middle-income countries. Whether or not prediction rules and/or risk scores may identify at-risk individuals for preventive strategy for targeted behavioral interventions among this population require investigation.
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Muia, Musyoki A., Prof Reuben Matheka, and Dr Mary Chepchieng. "The Impact of the African Inland Mission (AIM) On Social Change between 1895 and 1971 in Machakos District, Kenya." Editon Consortium Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies 2, no. 1 (March 30, 2020): 171–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjahss.v2i1.117.
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This study aimed at analysing the African Inland Mission and social transformation in Machakos District of Eastern Kenya from 1895 to 1971. It sought to establish how the elements of the Akamba social life underwent a social change as a result of the mission's presence in the district. The study was guided by the question: How effective was the mission in influencing social change in the district? The structural- functionalism theory formulated by Herbert Spencer and developed further by Emile Durkheim was used to analyse the role of the African Inland Mission in influencing social change in Machakos District. The qualitative research design involving the use of in-depth interviews with key informants was used. A target population consisting of local residents, former administrators and African Inland Mission/church leaders was interviewed. The study used the purposive method of sampling. Primary data was collected using in-depth oral interviews as well as from archival records, while secondary data was obtained through a thematic review of literature related to the topic of study. This study has provided sufficient knowledge on the African Inland Mission and the social transformation in Machakos District in the colonial and the early post-colonial periods of Kenyan history. In addition, the findings have constituted part of the historiography of the African Inland Mission in Kenya.
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Shai, K. B., and T. Nyawasha. "A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE POST-COLD WAR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS KENYA: AN AFROCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE." Commonwealth Youth and Development 14, no. 2 (April 6, 2017): 151–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1727-7140/1925.
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This article uses African critical theory (also known as Afrocentricity) to appraise US-Kenya inter-state relations. It does this first by contemporaneously historicising the relationship between the two countries and also looking at the current state of the US-Kenyan affair. Largely, the study carries a historical sensibility as it traces the relationship between Kenya and the US from as far as 1963. Our interest in this study is to highlight the peculiarity of the relationship between Kenya and the US. Put yet in another way, we seek to look at the nuances of the relationship. To achieve this, we rely methodologically on both primary and secondary sources to generate data. The data are analysed through the use of interdisciplinary critical discourse in its widest form. Overall, the central question we grapple with here is why the US sees in Kenya an indispensable political ally amidst all struggles and moments; some which have become part of the Kenyan political history, as this article will show. Three underlying currents shaping the relationship between Kenya and the US are identified in this article: 1) the consolidation of democracy; 2) the 2007 Kenyan election; and 3) the strategic importance of Kenya to the US’s overall political mission and objective. Lastly, this article makes its contribution to the existing body of literature in International Public Affairs (IPA) by implicitly and rigorously employing Afrocentricity as a new contextual lens to study US-Africa affairs.
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Cunningham, Tom. "“These Our Games” – Sport and the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya, c. 1907–1937." History in Africa 43 (June 23, 2015): 259–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2015.12.
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Abstract:In this article I use oral and documentary evidence gathered during recent fieldwork and archival research in the UK and Kenya to explore the ways in which the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya attempted to use sport to “civilize” and “discipline” the people of Central Kenya. I make a case for the important contributions the topic of sport can make to the study of African and colonial history, and offer a comprehensive critique of the only book-length work which explores the history of sport in colonial Kenya, John Bale and Joe Sang’sKenyan Running(1996).
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Thiani, Evanghelos. "Tensions of Church T(t)radition and the African Traditional Cultures in the African Orthodox Church of Kenya: Justifying Contextualization." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa 65, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 133–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2020.2.09.
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"Abstract The African Orthodox Church of Kenya was formed as an African Instituted Church in 1929, with considerable cultural and liberative connotations, before officially joining the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa in 1956. The journey of being faithful to the rich and ancient Eastern Orthodox tradition, history, and heritage as well as grappling with the local cultures is been an ongoing tension for this church. The tension is better appreciated from the eye view of non-Kenyan Orthodox and young theologians in comparison with that of the locals. Some contextualization practices within this church were ecclesiastically sanctioned, while others have never been reviewed, even though both are practiced with no distinction. This Orthodox Church in Kenya continues to be regarded as one of the staunchest and first growing Orthodox Church in Africa, influencing many upcoming African dioceses and the theologians they form in the main Patriarchal seminary based in Nairobi. This paper seeks to document this tension and struggle of the church and local community traditions and cultures, and with it seek to justify some of the contextualization that is realized and practiced in this church at present. Keywords: African Orthodox Church of Kenya, contextualization, tradition, culture, mission"
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Lounela, Jaakko. "An Old Mission and a Young Church Lutheran Work in Kenya From Scandinavian and Kenyan Viewpoints1." Mission Studies 6, no. 1 (1989): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338389x00238.
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Kalu, Ogbu. "Pentecostalism and Mission in Africa, 1970–2000 Le pentecôtisme et la mission en Afrique, 1970–2000 Pentekostalismus und Mission in Afrika, 1970–2000 Pentecostalismo y misión en África, 1970–2000." Mission Studies 24, no. 1 (2007): 9–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338307x191561.
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AbstractPentecostalism is growing rapidly in Africa driven by a passion for mission. This paper argues that the contemporary Pentecostal movement has its roots in a youthful charismatic movement that arose among mainline churches in the 1970s. The profile of the origins is explored with two case studies from Nigeria and Kenya. The character of the movement and the strategies for mission changed in every decade. This paper explores the increased use of media technology from the 1980s, and the solution to manpower problems by creating Christian universities in the 1990s. At the same time, an eschatological missionary impulse to recover the glory of Africa in the end-times compelled new strategies. Soon, African Pentecostals in a process of reverse flow exploded in the global north. How can we critique all these from a broader missiological perspective? Poussé par une véritable passion pour la mission, le pentecôtisme est en croissance rapide en Afrique. Cet article situe les racines du mouvement pentecôtiste contemporain dans un mouvement charismatique de jeunes qui s'est développé dans les Églises historiques au cours des années 1970. Il explore le profil de ses origines à travers deux études de cas au Nigeria et au Kenya. Le caractère du mouvement et ses stratégies de mission ont évolué de décennie en décennie. L'article examine l'utilisation croissante de la technologie des médias à partir des années 80 et la résolution des problèmes de personnel par la création d'universités chrétiennes dans les années 90. En même temps, un élan missionnaire eschatologique en vue de regagner la gloire de l'Afrique à la fin des temps, entraînait de nouvelles stratégies. Bientôt, dans un processus de mission en retour, les pentecôtistes africains explosaient dans le nord mondialisé. Comment pouvons nous élaborer une critique de ces événements d'un point de vue missiologique plus large? Der Pentekostalismus wächst schnell in Afrika, vorangetrieben von einer Passion für die Mission. Dieser Artikel behauptet, die aktuelle pentekostale Bewegung habe ihre Wurzeln in der jugendlichen charismatischen Bewegung, die unter den traditionellen Kirchen in den 70iger Jahren entstanden ist. Die Form dieser Ursprünge wird in zwei Fallstudien aus Nigeria und Kenia erläutert. Der Charakter der Bewegung und die Missionsstrategien veränderten sich alle zehn Jahre. Dieser Artikel studiert den verstärkten Gebrauch der Medientechnologie seit den 80iger Jahren und die Lösung des Personalproblems durch die Gründung von christlichen Universitäten in den 90iger Jahren. Zur gleichen Zeit zwang ein eschatologischer Missionsimpuls, der die Herrlichkeit Afrikas in der Endzeit wieder gewinnen wollte, zu neuen Strategien. Bald darauf begannen afrikanische Pentekostale in einer umgekehrten Flussrichtung in den Norden der Welt zu strömen. Wie können alle diese Phänomene in einem weiteren missiologischen Horizont kritisch analysiert werden? El pentecostalismo crece rápidamente en África, impulsado por la pasión por la misión. Este artículo plantea que el movimiento pentecostal contemporáneo hunde sus raíces en un joven movimiento carismático que surgió entre las iglesias tradicionales en los años 70. Se explora el perfil de los orígenes en dos estudios de casos de Nigeria y Kenia. El carácter del movimiento y las estrategias de misión cambiaron en cada década. Este artículo explora el uso más generalizado de la tecnología mediática a partir de los años 80 y la solución de problemas con el personal a través de la creación de universidades cristianas en los años 90. Al mismo tiempo, un impulso misionero escatológico para recuperar la gloria de África en los tiempos finales obligó a nuevas estrategias. En seguida, los pentecostales africanos explosionaron en un proceso de flujo en contrasentido hacia el norte del mundo. ¿Cómo se puede criticar todas estas observaciones desde una perspectiva misionológica más amplia?
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Stambach, Amy. "Spiritual Warfare 101: Preparing the Student for Christian Battle." Journal of Religion in Africa 39, no. 2 (2009): 137–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006609x433358.
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AbstractTaking its subtitle from a theological college course description, this paper examines the intersections of theological and anthropological ideas of culture, as seen through the eyes of Kenyan evangelists and American missionaries. One of the key concepts developed in the course, and in the broader program of this U.S.-funded nondenominational church in East Africa, is that understanding culture is key to learning and unlocking the spiritual 'personalities' (both godly and satanic) involved in spiritual warfare. Both Kenyans and Americans conceive of warfare as the struggle between secular and Christian worldviews and consider education to be one of the strongest weapons needed to win the battle. However, where U.S. teachers focus on animism and world-religious conflict as evidence of lingering immorality and ungodliness, Kenyans focus on American ethnocentrism and xenophobia as evidence of ongoing cultural misunderstandings and injustice. Analysis is based on examination of mission records and on field research conducted in Nairobi and western Kenya.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Missions – Kenya – History"
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Young, F. Lionel. "The transition from the Africa Inland Mission to the Africa Inland Church in Kenya, 1939-1975." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25975.
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This thesis examines the relationship between the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and the Africa Inland Church (AIC) in Kenya between 1939 and 1975. AIM began laying plans for an African denomination in Kenya in 1939 and established the Africa Inland Church in 1943. The mission did not clearly define the nature of its relationship with the church it founded. The arrangement was informal, and evolved over time. In addition, the relationship between the AIM and the AIC between 1939 and 1975 was often troubled. African independent churches were formed in the 1940s because of dissatisfaction over AIM policies. The mission opposed devolution in the 1950s, even when other mission societies were following this policy in preparation for independence in Kenya. AIM continued to resist a mission church merger in the 1960s and did not hand over properties and powers to the church until 1971. The study focuses on how the mission’s relationship with the church it founded evolved during this period. It considers how mission principles and policies created tension in the relationship with the church it founded. First, it examines how mission policy contributed to significant schisms in the 1940s, giving rise to African independent churches. Second, it looks at how AIM interpreted and responded to post-war religious, political and social changes in Kenya. Third, it explores the reasons for AIM’s rejection of a proposed mission-church merger in the late 1950s. Fourth, this study investigates mission motives for resisting increased African pressure for devolution after independence in Kenya even while it helped establish the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar. Fifth, it considers what happened to the mission and the church in the aftermath of a merger in 1971.
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Snively, Judith. "Female bodies, male politics : women and the female circumcision controversy in Kenyan colonial discourse." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26124.
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At the end of the 1920s in Kenya, Protestant Missionaries, government authorities and Christian Kikuyu clashed when missionaries sought to prohibit female circumcision among their adherents. The mission discourse emphasised the negative moral and physical effects of female circumcision on individual women, while that of the government stressed the function of female circumcision in maintaining the body-politic. The colonial discourse, as whole, is marked by a striking division between issues concerning women and those deemed political. Thus, women seldom appear as actors in historical narratives of the female circumcision controversy, which is generally represented as a nationalist movement initiated by, and of concern to, men.This thesis presents alternate readings of the relevant colonial records. By examining the processes that functioned to exclude women from the political discourse it provides a different interpretation of the controversy as one in which women did indeed play a central political role, indirectly controlling the issue through men, who were regarded by the colonialists as the legitimate representatives of tribal interests. The thesis explores indirect methods of eliciting the perspectives of women which are muted or absent from the historical record.
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Akunda, Athanasius Amos M. "Orthodox Christian dialogue with Bayore culture." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/6428.
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Orthodox Christianity came to the Banyore people of
western Kenya in 1942. The Banyore are Bantu speaking
people whose language belongs to the Luhya group of
languages. The Banyore live near the Uganda border; they
are thought to be related to the famous Uganda Kingdom of
Bunyoro Kitara. The first Christian missionaries among the
Banyore were Protestants who came from South Africa in
1905. . The Orthodox faith reached Bunyore in 1942,
through a Kenyan missionary from central Kenya, Bishop
George (Arthur) Gathuna, and Fr Obadiah from Uganda.
The point of note here is that the first Orthodox Christian
missionaries to introduce the Orthodox Christian faith to the
Banyore people were Kenyans. I shall examine the relation
between Orthodox Christianity and Banyore culture, and
show how Orthodox Christianity, in dialogue with the
Banyore people, became indigenised in Bunyore culture.
Thus Orthodox Christians in Bunyore do not see Orthodoxy
as something foreign, but as something that has become
part of their own culture.Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology
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Maangi, Eric Nyankanga. "The contribution and influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the development of post-secondary education in South Nyanza, 1971-2000." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20035.
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This study discusses the contribution and influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church to the development of post- secondary education in South Nyanza, Kenya. This has been done by focusing on the establishment and development of Kamagambo and Nyanchwa Adventist colleges whose history from 1971 to 2000 has been documented. This is a historical study which has utilized both the primary and secondary source of data.
For better and clear insights into this topic, the study starts by discussing the coming of Christian missionaries to Africa. The missionaries who came to Africa introduced western education. The origin of the SDA church to Africa has also been documented. The SDA church was formed as a result of the Christian evangelical revivals in Europe. This called for the Christians to base their faith on the Bible. As people read various prophecies in the bible, they thought that what they read was to be fulfilled in their lifetime. From 1830s to 1840s preachers and lay people from widely different denominations United States of America around William Miller (1782-1849). This led to the establishment of the SDA Church in 1844.
The study focuses on the coming of the SDA Missionaries to South-Nyanza. The efforts of the SDA Missionaries to introduce Western education in the said area, an endeavor which started at Gendia in 1906 has been discussed. From Gendia they established Wire mission and Kenyadoto mission in 1909. In 1912 Kamagambo and Nyanchwa, the subject of this study became mission and educational centres. The SDA mission, as was the case with other missionaries who evangelized South Nyanza, took the education of Africans as one of the most important goals for the process of African evangelization. The Adventist message penetrated the people of South Nyanza through their educational work. The conversion of the first converts can be ascribed to the desire for the education which accompanied the new religion.
Kamagambo Adventist College became the first college in South Nyanza. Equally, Nyanchwa became the first college in the Gusii part of South Nyanza. The two colleges exercised a great influence on the local community especially in the socio-economic and educational fields. At the same time the colleges have also contributed enormously to the community’s development through the roles played by its alumni in society. Besides this, the study has also recommended some other pertinent areas for further study and research.Educational Foundations
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Zurlo, Gina. "'A miracle from Nairobi': David B. Barrett and the quantification of world Christianity, 1957–1982." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27183.
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This dissertation analyzes the role of quantification in the history of Christian mission by placing David B. Barrett’s World Christian Encyclopedia (1982) in its historical context. It argues that Barrett’s unique mixture of education, professional background, and geographical location in Africa helped him develop an understanding of world Christianity based on its newly-discovered diversity and fragmentation at the end of the British Empire. The Encyclopedia presented a comprehensive quantitative assessment of membership in all branches of the Church and helped shape contemporary understandings of world Christianity. In making explicit connections among world Christianity, mission history, and the social scientific study of religion, this dissertation sheds lights on the history of religious data in relationship to world Christianity.
This study shows that Barrett was part of a long history of missionaries who produced church-based, scientific scholarship. It illustrates the ubiquity of such scholarship throughout the history of mission, demonstrated through an analysis of missionary quantification from the Jesuits to Barrett, including the Christian roots of American sociology. This analysis contends that American sociology in the 1960s—when Barrett received his Ph.D. in religion from Columbia University—was fundamentally shaped by the history of missionaries who produced social scientific research.
The Encyclopedia was conceived, developed, and produced in Africa. Barrett’s location in Nairobi, Kenya, with the Church Missionary Society during the rise of African nationalism and decolonization informed his perspective on world Christianity. Much like the African Independent Churches he studied, Barrett broke off from the missionary establishment and threw his support behind “heretical” African groups. This analysis of Barrett’s experience in Kenya suggests that the growth of African Christianity was fundamental to reshaping definitions of world Christianity.
This dissertation contributes to existing scholarship by historically placing the World Christian Encyclopedia in its theological, geographic, political, and social contexts. This study shows that Barrett was the first person to quantify religious adherence of all kinds and to equally represent all of world Christianity in one book. Further, the Encyclopedia indicated that a new era of world Christianity had come, and its center of gravity had moved from white Europe to black Africa.
Books on the topic "Missions – Kenya – History"
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History of the Holy Ghost Mission in Kenya: (1885-2000). Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2005.
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The way the Catholic Church started in western Kenya. London: Mission Book Service, 1990.
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Christianity among the nomads: The Catholic Church in northern Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2004.
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Mogambi, Ernest Achuti. Missions and evangelism in Kenya and its impact on the Abagusii of western Kenya in 1909-1963. Berlin: Viademica, 2006.
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Valender, Fred W. A mustard seed mission: How it grew into the Methodist Church in Kenya. [S.l: F.W. Valender], 1988.
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Faith received, lived and given: History of Consolata Missionary Sisters in Kenya (1913-2013). Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2013.
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From pilot to pastoral Bishop: Memoirs and reflections of 53 years of missionary life in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: Pauline Publications Africa, 2014.
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Trevisiol, Alberto. Uscirono per dissodare il campo: Pagine di storia dei Missionari della Consolata in Kenya, 1902-1981. Roma: Edizioni Missioni Consolata, 1989.
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Mutira Mission: An African church comes of age in Kirinyaga, Kenya, 1912-2012. Limuru, Kenya: Zapf Chancery Publishers Africa, 2011.
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Prophetic Christianity in Western Kenya: Political, cultural, and theological aspects of African Independent Churches. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008.
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Rombo, Dorothy Owino, and Anne Namatsi Lutomia. "Tracing the Rights of Domestic and International Kenyan House Helps." In Handbook of Research on Women's Issues and Rights in the Developing World, 1–18. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3018-3.ch001.
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This chapter traces a history of domestic workers both within, and to a lesser degree without, Kenya. Reading from international policy platforms—including the United Nations and various international non-governmental organizations—as well as academic research, Kenyan government policy documents, and online sources like blogs and periodicals that reveal this history and frame content addressing domestic workers, the authors develop an image of the situation of domestic work in Kenya. We identified missing protections of rights and made other policy recommendations in light of that situation. Using intersectionality to disclose how the different identities of gender, class, socioeconomic status, and ethnic identification (socially imposed or individually emphasized) of domestic workers in Kenya simultaneously clash and collude, workers nonetheless remain embedded within layers of marginalization that make the very circumstance of their work more challenging for upholding the human rights of these employees. By calling attention to the destiny of migrant domestic workers in comparison to local Kenyan domestics and linking to the present international push to protect migrant domestic workers, then, not only discloses but also hints at how the needs and interests of domestic Kenyan workers may be better met, respected, and protected. It suggests future work as well aimed at prompting an acknowledgment of, and policy changes with respect to, the basic human rights of other subaltern populations.