Descent from Cherang’any Hills – Memoirs of a Reluctant Academic

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Descent From Cheragany Hills

Author: B E Kipkorir

ISBN :  978 9966 343 68 0

The memoirs display a masterly of the tapestry of the Marakwet culture that scholars will definitely find useful as, unlike in history textbooks, the story here is peppered with sounds, sights and events lived through by actual people and reproduced from the perspective of an insider. The author goes beyond observation of the events in his life and has clearly done extensive research to help him – and by extension the reader – understand his world.

On the governance front, the book is an eye-opener on where the rain started beating the country in the area of devolved governance.   Based on his experience as a past Deputy Clerk of the Sirikwa County Council, the author puts the scalpel on the running of the local governments in the country, giving figures to compare the post-independence running of government to the colonial days. The insights from the author’s experience would be of much value especially to policy makers and students of the devolved system of governance, which is now enshrined in the Kenyan constitution.