Colonial Administration.

Healthcare Policy Administration and Reforms in Post-Colonial Kenya and Challenges for the Future

The underlying vision for health developments and reforms in Kenya as detailed in the ongoing 1994 Kenya Health Policy Framework Paper is to provide “quality health care that is acceptable, affordable and accessible to all”. This paper discusses the reforms in the healthcare policy in Kenya by evaluating the health sector developments in the post-colonial era. Key issues, trends, challenges and...

Pre-colonial Political Administration in the North Central Nigeria: a Study of the Igala Political Kingdom

Available evidence has shown that pre-colonial African societies had a formal and organized system of government before the advent of colonialism. However, there seem to be an intellectual conspiracy against the minor ethnic groups as most of the contemporary literature has focused on the three major ethnic groups-Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and the Igbo political systems. In order to save these minor...

Genealogical Analysis of the Dispositive of Humanitarianism/Trusteeship: From Colonial Administration to Peacebuilding

Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...

The Case of Children’s Literature: colonial or anti-colonial?

Since Jacqueline Rose published The Case of Peter Pan in 1984, scholars in the field of children’s literature have taken up a rhetorical stance which treats child readers as colonised, and children’s books as a colonising site. This article takes issue with Rose’s rhetoric of colonisation and its deployment by scholars, arguing that it is tainted by logical and ethical flaws. Rather, children’s...