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Jua Kali Kenya : Change & Development in title: an Informal Economy, 1970-95 Eastern African Studies (London, England) author: King, Kenneth. publisher: Ohio University Press isbn10 | asin: 082141156X print isbn13: 9780821411568 ebook isbn13: 9780585067131 language: English Informal sector (Economics)--Kenya, subject Artisans--Kenya, Small business--Kenya. publication date: 1996 lcc: HD2346.K4K563 1996eb ddc: 330 Informal sector (Economics)--Kenya, subject: Artisans--Kenya, Small business--Kenya. Page i Eastern African Studies Revealing Prophets Prophecy in Eastern African History Edited by DAVID M. ANDERSON& DOUGLAS H. 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People began to talk of taking their cars to jua kali mechanics. Gradually the term was extended to refer to anyone in self-employment, whether in the open air or in permanent premises. On 28 May 1988 The Standard reported that the Minister of Technical Training and Applied Technology wished to encourage the use of the term jua kali rather than informal sector, and had therefore announced that the small-scale industry which had come to be known as the informal sector would henceforth assume the name Jua Kali Development Programme. The term 'informal sector' was first used of Ghana by Keith Hart in 1971. But it was in Kenya that it was first widely applied in 1971 and 1972. Page iv This photograph was used on the front cover of The African Artisan by Kenneth King (1977). John Nene was one ofthe original group of informal sector workers interviewed by Kenneth King in the early seventies. See page 63 for photographs of him, his son and his work today. Front cover. A view of part of Kamukunji in Nairobi, one of the oldest sites of jua kali activity in the city; it was visited by President Moi in 1985 and it was on this spot where he delivered his promise to provide sheds to shade jua kali workers from the hot sun. One of these sheds can be seen in the picture. Page v Jua Kali Kenya Change & Development in an In, final Economy 1970-95 KENNETH KING Professor of International & Comparative Education & Director of the Centre of African Studies University of Edinburgh James Currey LONDON EAEP NAIROBI Ohio University Press ATHENS Page vi James Currey Ltd 54b Thornhill Square London NI IBE East African Educational Publishers Kijabe Street, P.O. Box 45314 Nairobi, Kenya Ohio University Press Scott Quadrangle Athens, Ohio 45701, USA ©Kenneth King 1996 First published 1996 1 2 3 4 5 00 99 98 97 96 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data King, Kenneth, 1940 Jua Kali Kenya: change and development in an informal economy, 197095 1. Informal sector (economics) Africa I. Title 331.1 '25'096 ISBN 0-85255-240-8 (James Currey Cloth) ISBN 0-85255-239-4 (James Currey Paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN 0-8214-1156-X (Ohio University Press Cloth) ISBN 0-8214-1157-8 (Ohio University Press Paper) Typeset in 10/llpt Baskerville Long House Publishing Services, Cumbria, UK Printed in Great Britain
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