1st Edition
Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya Stories from an African Scientist
List of Illustrations
Preface
The Art of Storytelling / Stories of Science: An introduction
- Daudi
- Colonial Administration
- Soliat Primary School
- Growing up During Independence
- Hospitalization
- Student Life and Education Reforms
- Kericho Tea Hotel
- On Becoming a Scientist
- Siberia
- HLA tissue-typing and kidney transplants in Kenya
- Science and Technology Amendment Act
- Daniel arap Moi
- National Politics
- The Kenya Medical Research Institute
- Japan
- Division of Vector Borne Diseases
- Wellcome Trust
- Walter Reed Project / US Army Research Unit
- The US Embassy and the CDC
- The KEMRON Trial
- Saba Saba and the KEMRON Results
- Kinshasa and Racial Politics
- A Son’s Death
- Collaborative agreements and fiscal irregularities
- The Accusations
- Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission
- The Arrest
- Corporate executive
- Faith
Epilogue by Davy Kiprotich Koech
Biography
Denielle Elliott is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Social Science and Anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada with cross-appointments in the graduate programs of International Development Studies, and Science, Technology and Studies. She is a founder and co-curator of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, and writes on questions relating to social suffering, colonialism, morality, and the politics of medicine.
Stories attest to the profoundly relational nature of human experience and achievement. With these engaging tales from the life of one of Kenya’s most prominent scientists, Denielle Elliott’s book reveals the intricate web of relationship and heritage through which postcolonial citizens here and elsewhere pursue knowledge, negotiate statecraft, and navigate the promises and pitfalls of transcontinental connection.
Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University, USA
This book delivers a rare first-person account of international research by an African scientist. It is a book about experiments, by medical researchers facing a terrible plague, by an ambitious man in post-colonial Kenya, and by an anthropologist looking for new ways to narrate stories about African science. Davy Kiprotich Koech bravely recalled his memories of a sometimes controversial life in interviews with Denielle Elliott. Elliott’s sensitive framing of Koech’s testimony offers critical insight into the politics of knowledge in Africa, of power in Kenya, and of the ways that stories make selves.
Nancy J. Jacobs, Brown University, USA
