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Authors: Michela Wrong
Pinto, Pio 26
Power, Samantha 331
Prunier, Gerard 52
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) 95, 237â8, 253, 254, 257, 268
Public Officer Ethics Act 66, 283
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Ribadu, Nuhu 326
Rice, Xan 250
Rift Valley 47, 49, 104, 112, 114, 140, 141, 282, 295, 297, 308
Ringera, Justice Aaron 20, 66, 217â18, 221â2, 228, 245, 250, 269â71, 272, 274, 322, 327
Rwanda 9, 115, 140â1, 196, 298, 299, 308
Rweria, Erastus 283
Ryan, Professor Terry 56
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Sachs, Jeffrey 192, 205, 266
St Antony's College, Oxford 31, 32, 228â33, 235, 242, 243, 248, 326
St Mary's school, Nairobi 127â9, 133, 136, 142, 175
Saitoti, George 211, 251, 268, 273, 311
SAREAT (Series for Alternative Research in East Africa Trust) 162
Sargasyan, Artur 256â60
Satchu, Aly Khan 281
Save the Children 205
Serious Fraud Office, UK (SFO) 266, 276, 328
Sheng dialect 150â2, 310
Shihemi, Henry 128, 129
Short, Claire 71, 207, 287n
Sitonik, Wilson 93
Somaia, Ketan 172
Somalia 9, 78, 277
South Africa 11, 326
Soyinka, Wole 132
Standard Media Group 255
State House, Nairobi 12, 21, 22, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35â6, 38, 39, 65â6, 69, 70, 71, 74, 80, 81, 84, 89, 92, 93, 129, 160, 164, 172, 173, 174, 177, 179, 181, 183, 184, 202, 218, 219, 220, 222, 224, 232, 235, 238, 244, 249, 260, 270, 271, 283, 300, 304, 306, 325
Strathmore University 134, 135
Sudan 9, 131, 314, 325
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Tanzania 48, 102, 140, 141, 150, 283, 299, 314
Thiongo, Ngugi Wa 132
Trade Bank 270
Transparency International (TI) 11, 14, 15, 16, 17â18, 36, 55, 66, 79, 80, 81, 118, 141â2, 160, 162, 175, 176, 179, 197, 119â200, 224, 261, 283, 289, 320
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Uganda 9, 45, 46, 48, 68, 140, 141, 150, 195â6, 283, 299, 302
United Kingdom: aid to Kenya 187, 193â204, 205â12, 225, 261â2, 267, 275, 276â7, 337; colonial rule of Kenya 8â9, 11, 45â50, 52, 60, 104â10, 115, 122, 134, 172, 184, 194, 202, 203, 286â8; High Commissioner to Kenya 71, 171, 183, 194â204, 210â15, 224, 225, 254, 259, 267, 277, 333â4; trains soldiers in Kenya 9
United Nations 314; Africa bureaux 9; awards Kenya Public Service Award 2007 285; Convention against Corruption 65; gives Kenyan Treasury more autonomy over use of aid 286; Habitat 149; Joe Githongo's work for 124; Millennium Development Goals 207, 287; oil-for-food programme 263
United States: aid to Kenya 189, 193â4, 222â3, 224, 250, 259; ambassador to Kenya 193â4, 222â3, 224, 250, 259; Federal Reserve 263; State Department 197; warships based off Kenya 9
USAID 189
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Vogl, Frank 61
Volcker, Paul 263, 264, 278
von Szek, Samuel Teleki 104
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Wa Kibiru, Mugo 45
Wainaina, Eric 129
Wainana, Binyavanga 1, 106, 152, 324
Wako, Amos 170, 268
Wanjigi, Jimmy 84, 87, 91, 93â4, 129, 175
Wanjui, Joe 15â16, 175, 265, 297
Wanyeki, Muthoni 324
Warah, Rasna 67, 131
Were, Hussein 58â60, 272, 273n, 327, 334
Wolf, Dr Tom 158
Wolfensohn, James 185, 262
Wolfowitz, Paul 262â3, 275â6, 277
World Bank 66, 305; Anglo Leasing scandal, reaction to 260â1; corruption, attitudes towards 141, 170, 184, 185, 199, 207â8, 223â4, 260â1, 262â3, 275â6, 277, 278, 333; Development Committee 276; DfID and 275, 276; Governance and AntiâCorruption (GAC) Framework 276; Institute 207â8; JG joins Volcker panel 263, 278; JG's resignation from Kibaki government, reaction to 223â4; Moi era, grows wary of funding during 170; âpushing money out the door' 189; staff intimacy with African governmental staff 190â2; structural adjustment programmes 60â1; talks up Kenya's prospects 332
World Vision 189
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Zaidi, Ali 138â40, 141, 236
Zenawi, Meles 192
Zhvania, Zhurab 227â8
MICHELA WRONG
is a distinguished journalist and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC, and the
Financial Times
. She writes regularly about Africa for Slate.com and is a frequent commentator on African affairs in the media. Her first book,
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
, won the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Nonfiction. Her second book,
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
, is a portrait of the African nation of Eritrea. Michela Wrong lives in London.
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz:
Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
I Didn't Do It for You:
How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
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IT'S OUR TURN TO EAT
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It is actually named after Karen Melchior, Karen Blixen's cousin, whose father owned the Karen Coffee Company.
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Hussein Were was sacked by the KACC in June 2006, accused by his superiors of leaking stories to the Kenyan media. He denies this, and believes he once again fell foul of an ethnically motivated purge.
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New Labour's arm's-length stance towards Britain's imperial history was captured by Clare Short in 1997 when, as newly appointed international development secretary, she wrote to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who had been presing for a greater British contribution to the cost of land distribution. âWe are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests,' she said.
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At the time of going to press, the Kriegler and Waki commissions had delivered their reports, the first recommending the radical reform of the Electoral Commission of Kenya and the second calling for the senior figures who instigated the election violence to be either tried before a special tribunal in Kenya or prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. A new electoral commission looks certain, but the Waki report, which has huge political ramifications, is yet to be acted upon.
