Jua kali Kenya: change & development in an informal economy, 1970-95

527 Pages·1996·4.3 MB·English

by  Kenneth King

Jua Kali Kenya : Change & Development in
title: an Informal Economy, 1970-95 Eastern
African Studies (London, England)
author: King, Kenneth.
publisher: Ohio University Press
isbn10 | asin: 082141156X
print isbn13: 9780821411568
ebook isbn13: 9780585067131
language: English
Informal sector (Economics)--Kenya,
subject
Artisans--Kenya, Small business--Kenya.
publication date: 1996
lcc: HD2346.K4K563 1996eb
ddc: 330
Informal sector (Economics)--Kenya,
subject:
Artisans--Kenya, Small business--Kenya.
Page i
Eastern African Studies
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BRUCE BERMAN
Unhappy Valley
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BRUCE BERMAN & JOHN LONSDALE
Mau Mau from Below*
GREET KERSHAW
The Mau Mau War in Perspective
FRANK FUREDI
Squatters & the Roots of Mau Mau, 190563
TABITHA KANOGO
Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau 194553
DAVID THROUP
Penetration & Protest in Tanzania
The Impact of the Worn Economy on the Pare 18601960
ISARIA N. KIMAMBO
The Second Economy in Tanzania
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Custodians of the Land
Environment & Culture in the History of Tanzania
Edited by GREGORY MADDOX, JAMES L. GIBLIN & ISARIA N.
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Jua Kali Kenya
Change & Development in an Informal Economy 197095
KENNETH KING
Kampala Women Getting By
Wellbeing in the Time of Aids
SANDRA WALLMAN
Uganda Now
Changing Uganda
Developing Uganda*
From Chaos to Order
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Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar
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Jua Kali Kenya
Change & Development in an Informal Economy197095
Jua Kali in Swahili means 'hot sun'. But over the course of the 1980s,
and perhaps a little earlier, it came to be used of the informal sector
artisans, such as car mechanics and metalworkers who were
particularly noticeable for working under the hot sun because of the
absence of premises. People began to talk of taking their cars to jua
kali mechanics. Gradually the term was extended to refer to anyone in
self-employment, whether in the open air or in permanent premises.
On 28 May 1988 The Standard reported that the Minister of Technical
Training and Applied Technology wished to encourage the use of the
term jua kali rather than informal sector, and had therefore announced
that the small-scale industry which had come to be known as the
informal sector would henceforth assume the name Jua Kali
Development Programme.
The term 'informal sector' was first used of Ghana by Keith Hart in
1971. But it was in Kenya that it was first widely applied in 1971 and
1972.
Page iv
This photograph was used on the front cover of The African Artisan by Kenneth
King (1977). John Nene was one ofthe original group of informal sector workers
interviewed by Kenneth King in the early seventies. See page 63 for photographs
of him, his son and his work today.
Front cover. A view of part of Kamukunji in Nairobi, one of the oldest
sites of jua kali activity in the city; it was visited by President Moi in
1985 and it was on this spot where he delivered his promise to provide
sheds to shade jua kali workers from the hot sun. One of these sheds
can be seen in the picture.

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Jua Kali Kenya
Change & Development in an In, final Economy 1970-95
KENNETH KING
Professor of
International & Comparative Education
& Director of the Centre of African Studies
University of Edinburgh
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King, Kenneth, 1940
Jua Kali Kenya: change and development in an informal economy,
197095
1. Informal sector (economics) Africa
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