The gallant academic
Subtitle: essays in honour of HWO Okoth-Ogendo
By: Patricia Kameri-Mbote & Collins Odote (eds)
Contributors: University of Nairobi. Faculty of Law
Publisher: School of Law--University of Nairobi
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Nairobi, Kenya
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9789966195203
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Influence; Land tenure; Law teachers; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Other titles: Gallant academic :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-366).
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Patricia Kameri-Mbote & Collins Odote -- part I.; title: Okoth the person.; title: Okoth-Ogendo : the man  -- Ruth Adhiambo Okoth-Ogendo; title: HWO Okoth-Ogendo : a personification of excellence  -- PLO Lumumba; title: My memories of Hastings Wilfred Opinya Okoth-Ogendo from 1968 to 1982  -- Willy Mutunga; title: Okoth-Ogendo the academic  -- Jackton B. Ojwang; title: Okoth-Ogendo's style : discerning the guru's voice in a scholarly text  -- Okoth Okombo. -- part II.; title: Okoth's contribution to land tenure foundational discourses.; title: In search of thematic unity in land law : tenure security  -- Gamaliel Mgongo Fimbo; title: Beyond private ownership : alternative paradigms for rural and urban tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa  -- Ben Cousins; title: The fate of res communis in Africa : unfinished business  -- Liz Alden Wily; title: The conundrum of institutional arrangements to govern community land in Kenya  -- Collins Odote. -- part III. Okoth's contribution to governance discourses.; title: Constitutionalism : African perspectives  -- Yash Ghai; title: The role of civil society in land reforms in Kenya : the Kenya Land Alliance  -- Odenda Lumumba; title: Demystifying the politics of land tenure : Okoth-Ogendo and the concept of land in Africa  -- Karuti Kanyinga; title: Okoth the dream keeper : breaking down the boundaries of law  -- Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira & Nkatha Kabira. -- part IV.; title: Okoth in land and gender discourses.; title: The more things change the more they stay constant : Okoth's constribution to gender equality and non-discrimination in land matters  -- Patricia Kameri-Mbote; title: Gendered land questions and the marginalization of Maasai women  -- Agnes K. Meroka. -- part V.; title: Land use.; title: Land tenure and use among indigenous communities in Kenya : trade-off with climate change mitigation strategies  -- Elvin Nyukuri; title: Developments in environmental governance in Kenya : experiences using the Owino-Uhuru case  -- Charles Odidi-Okidi & Collins Odote. -- part VI.; title: Final matters : Okoth's curriculum vitae and select people's memories of him.