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- Title
Tom Mboya and the African Student Airlifts: Inclusion, Equity and Higher Education Among Kenyan Women and Men.
- Authors
Harper, Jim C.
- Abstract
This essay depicts how the Kenyan Student Airlifts and the efforts led by Tom Mboya sought to provide Kenyan women and men opportunities to obtain higher education in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a factor that influenced gender equity in Kenya wherein the efforts Kenyan women and later women throughout the continent of African gained access to higher education which led to greater economic and social mobility in the civil and private sectors of the newly independent African nation. Secondly, it argues that Pan-Africanism, Black nationalism and liberation combined with the United States' hope to prevent the spread of communism and thus led to Kenyan nationalists and Civil Rights activists in America working together via the education of Kenyan men and women, which set the stage for the inclusion of women in higher education in Africa.
- Subjects
KENYAN students; MILITARY airlift; HIGHER education of women; GENDER inequality -- Social aspects; BLACK nationalism
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 9, p82
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article