Politics, Participation, And Poverty: Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya. Dr. Thomas looks at the competition for pow

Barbara P. Thomas is assistant professor and director of the Teaching Program in International Development and Social Change at Clark University. She spent ten years living in various countries in Africa and Asia, including three years in Kenya.