Prof. Maurice N. Amutabi

2002 Conference Papers and Presentations

• Maurice N. Amutabi. The history of American Private Voluntary Organizations in Kenya's Socio-Economic Development: The Case of the Rockefeller Foundation." Paper Presented at the conference on "Post-WCAR: Reviving the Dialogue for Africans and African Descendants," University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. February 23, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. "The Role of American NGOs in socio-political and economic dynamics of Post-Independent Kenya." Paper presented at Conference on "Critical Approaches in African Studies: Conversations across Disciplines,” 7^th Annual Midwest Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. March, 22-24, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. “Interrogating Trans-Indian Ocean Culinary Diffusion in Africa: The Case of Chapati and Pilau in Kenya and their Indian and Arab Origins.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Cultural Exchange and Transformation in the Indian Ocean World (IOW), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). April 5-6, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. (With Moses Oketch) “Privatization of Higher Education in Kenya: Problems and Prospects.” Paper presented at a Conference on the theme: African Universities in the 21^st Century, Organized by University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. April 25-27, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. “A Critical Assessment of the Power and Influence of African Translators and Clerks at Khwisero Court in Colonial Kenya, 1946 -1956.” Paper presented at the 8^th Stanford-Berkeley and Colonialism Symposium on “Interpreters, Letter Writers, and Clerks: Mediating Law and Authority in Colonial Africa.” Stanford University, California.  May 2-4, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. “Insecurity and the Legacy of the Italian Presence in the Ilemi Triangle of Eastern Africa: Sixty Years Later.” Paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Multidisciplinary Conference on “The Sixtieth Anniversary of World War II” at Siena Research Institute, Sienna College, Loudonville, New York. June 6– 7, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. “Market Women in International Trade in Kenya: The Case of Eastleigh and Gikomba Open Air Markets in Nairobi.” Paper presented at the Conference on “Globalization, Liberalization and the Role of Women in Africa’s Development,” held at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. September 6 - 8, 2002.
• Maurice N. Amutabi. “New Questions on the History of Urbanization in Kenya: The Case of Isiolo Town.” Paper presented at the 45^th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Session XI-E14 – "Technological Innovation, Tradition and Political and Economic Development in Kenyan History," Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC, December 5-8, 2002.