Introduction / Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Michael Kithinji, and Jerono Rotich -- Education model and university curriculum in Kenya : dysfunctionality and reforms since independence / Michael Mwenda Kithinji -- Geoffrey William Griffin's work at the National Youth Service : contributions to Kenya's national development / Peter Otiato Ojiambo -- Teach our children in their mother tongue / Margaret W. Njeru -- Reassessing Jomo Kenyatta's crackdown on theatre for education and development / Samson Kaunga Ndanyi -- Mpesa as a Kenyan success story : economic progress and social impact / Frank Jacobs -- Combating road traffic accidents in Kenya : a challenge for an emerging economy / Charles G. Manyara -- Kenya at 50 : contextualization of post-independence sporting success / W. W. S. Njororai -- Can Kenyan women really perform? Women on the sports field and in the boardroom / W. W. S. Njororai -- Gender, archiving and recognition : naming and erasing in Nairobi's cityscape / Besi Brillian Muhonja -- Kenya at 50 : Kenyan women reach some milestones / Jerono P. Rotich and Kipchumba Byron -- Feminism unfinished : Kenya's feminist and women's rights movements, 1963-2013 / Brenda Nyandiko Sanya and Anne Namatsi Lutomia.