Jua Kali Kenya

KENNETH KING is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and former Director of its Centre of African Studies, and author of China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa (2013).

• From informal sector to jua kali; the "jua-kalification" of Nairobi; industrial diversity in Gikomba in the early-1990s; revisiting rural Kenya's jua kali; education and training for self-employment in Kenya; Kenya's jua kali in a wider context.

... to my knowledge, there is no social scientist alive who is more adroit than Professor King at painting a vivid, detailed picture of what actually goes on. -