by Kimani Waweru | Jul 25, 2020 | issue 2, main issues
We welcome you to the second issue of The Kenya Socialist (TKS). When launching the first issue in September 2019, we had planned for TKS to be published on a quarterly basis. However, changing situations and our limited resources have made it difficult to meet this...
by Shiraz Durrani | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
Life & Times of de Souza The liberation of Kenya can be considered in two linked phases. The first was the war of independence from British colonialism, which ended in 1963. The second phase started after independence and is an on-going struggle for liberation...
by Shiraz Durrani | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
The Hidden Face of Capitalism Current events and history in Kenya are usually seen in the actions related to politics, law, governance and the leadership of the ruling classes. What is not seen or shown is the ideology of the ruling class — capitalism — underpinning...
by Kimani Waweru | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
Frederick Engels wrote his pamphlet ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’, in 1880. It is a masterpiece, which every revolutionary should read and study. Although it was written over a century ago, its ideas are still relevant today. The pamphlet is in three parts i.e....
by Lenana Anyuolo | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
Speech at the Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASSA) at USIU on 25th Oct 2019 I had prepared to present a paper on Developing African Feminism by Recovering The Lost Histories of Women, but upon further reflection, I realized that the topic...
by Kimani Waweru | Jul 24, 2020 | issue 2
Historical Analysis of Gender The term gender, according to the World Health Organisation1, refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relationships of, and between, groups of women and men. In Kenya, as with other...
