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He reformed KEMSA from being an agency to Authority independent from political interference and getting funding directly from the treasury. He also transformed NHIF from a Hospital Fund into National Health Insurance Fund to provide universal healthcare to Kenyans.
He reformed KEMSA from being an agency to Authority independent from political interference and getting funding directly from the treasury. He also transformed NHIF from a Hospital Fund into National Health Insurance Fund to provide universal healthcare to Kenyans.
Dec 29, 2020 · By NBM Writer Academic, activist and politician Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o is a man who straddles defining events of several generations – defined by the lives and ideals of early liberation leaders and reformers in colonial Kenya, he became a political activist and in post-independence Kenya during President Daniel Moi’s regime, which he continues in
- Dedication
- SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS
- CLOSING REMARKS AND CONCLUSIONS
- Introduction
- A journey into the past
- I. BRITISH SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND AFRICAN POLITICS
- II BEHAVIORISM AND AFRICAN POLITICS
- III. THE STATE AND MODERNIZATION
- II. POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE CONTEXT OF POLITICS
- III. PEASANTS AND OTHERS IN AFRICAN POLITICS
- IV. ‘DEVELOPMENT’, AUTHORITARIANISM AND DEMOCRACY
- VI. PROMISES AND LIMITS OF MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACIES
To my mother Dorca Owino and my father Canon Hezbon Shimei Nyong’o; for your love and care all my life. Dedication
The second session started off with a presentation of a paper entitled “Africa in the New Millennium: Towards a Post-Traditional Renaissance” by Dani Nabudere. The author pointed out that the paper was written for a seminar on Development and Globalisation that was held in Scandinavia. In that context the paper covered a wide range of issues, sta...
It was left to Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, the originator of the project, to make the closing remarks. He reported that a few proposals had been made. One was to give the participants up to March 2000 to produce their final drafts. Second, it had been suggested that a website be developed so as to facilitate the posting and exchange of the texts not ...
The original idea that Michael Chege and I had while teaching at the University of Nairobi in the late seventies was to write a textbook on African politics. We also had a provisional title for it, “An Introduction to African Politics.” We actually drew up the outline, shared out the chapters and started the work. A draft was completed which we set...
Before coming to the paradigms themselves, one must first say that there seem to be two major stimuli to the changes of paradigms we have employed over the past fifty years or so to analyze African polities and politics, whether pre-colonial kingdoms, colonies, or contemporary states. Africa itself has changed, apparently not for the better. Our co...
Many intellectual and methodological schools of thought have influenced the study of African politics in the past. For many years, the study of pre-colonial African politics was the exclusive province of British anthropology, particularly as this was expressed through the intellectual paradigms established largely by Radcliffe-Brown. However, Meyer...
By and large, however, the literature on African politics during the nationalist period and in subsequent years was to be dominated by authors utilizing what came to be called “the behaviorist perspective” of political science. The fact that most writers using this perspective were either Americans interested in Third World countries in the wake of...
With political independence came the notion that the state, in the new nations of Africa, needed to perform certain roles if the expectations aroused among the people by political mobilization for independence were not to be frustrated and hence turned against the established order. During the first decade of independence, there was political as we...
In studying both the developmental processes in Africa as well as the political processes, something was lacking; an understanding of the environment or context of both development and politics. Politics is contextual, i.e. it takes place within a certain environment, it deals with relationships among social forces as they seek to transform their e...
Leftist literature regarding the nature of the state in post-colonial Africa has perhaps been too biased towards trying to find out who rules politically and who the dominant classes are. In comparison very little attention has been paid to the other classes within these social formations. We are not trying to suggest that Marxist literature has co...
Samuel Huntington 121 once argued that in young nations where development or modernization is a priority for the ruling elites, it is difficult, and may even not be necessary, to establish and sustain democracy. The tendency is therefore towards authoritarian rule, justified by its modernization outcome. While this argument may have been born out b...
Like their counterpart nationalist parties, recently established political parties have been mass movements: weak in organization, single-issue oriented and not ideological. They have been elite-dominated, top-down in mobilizing supporters, largely urban-based and with little or no elaborate programs and policies for their projects in assuming stat...
Apr 25, 2022 · Professor Nyong’o, a political scientist, has made a strong pitch that portends a radical departure from the current status quo — a parliamentary system of government. He argues that the presidential system is ‘an ugly beast’ which Kenyans should abandon.
As a minister for medical services, he reformed KEMSA from being an agency to Authority independent from political interference and getting funding directly from the treasury. He also transformed NHIF from a Hospital Fund into National Health Insurance Fund to provide universal healthcare to Kenyans.
Aug 29, 2022 · On August 25, 2022, Professor Peter Anyang' Nyong'o was sworn in for his second term as Governor of Kisumu City, Kenya. After 5 years at the helm of Kenya's third largest city, he has managed to regain the trust of his fellow citizens after the general elections held on August 9.
