Kenneth King (academic)

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Kenneth James King (born 1940) is since September 2005 Professor Emeritus of International and Comparative Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian, an Africanist and former Director of the Centre of African Studies (CAS) at Edinburgh. King obtained a Bachelor of Arts Classical Tripos from the University of Cambridge, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the Institute of Education, London. He taught African History at a secondary school in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, [1] and earned a PhD degree in African history at the University of Edinburgh in 1968. He then worked at the University of Nairobi before returning to Edinburgh, where he was a Lecturer, Reader and Professor. In 1978 he was seconded for four years to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, Canada. [2] [3] [4] Kenneth King and his wife Pravina King Khilnani were both presented with the 2011/2012 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK). [5] King has researched the small scale informal sector (Jua Kali) enterprises in Kenya over a 20-year period, and more recently studied India-Africa cooperation in human resource development, especially in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa, and China's aid policies towards Africa.

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Kenneth King published many journal articles, books and book chapters including: [2] [6]

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References

  1. Professor Kenneth King - LSE Africa Insights on YouTube. Video duration 4m:51s. Kopfadeyemi Fellowship, 16 May 2016. Insights from the Research Conference of the LSE Africa Summit 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Kenneth King Professor Emeritus". sps.ed.ac.uk/staff. University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. "Kenneth King, The University of Edinburgh, Centre for African Studies (CAS) BA Classical Tripos (Cantab); PGCE (Institute of Education, London); PhD Edinburgh Publications (167)". researchgate.net. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  4. Bray, Mark (2019). Foreword, in: Kenneth King: Education, Skills and International Cooperation : Comparative and Historical Perspectives. CERC studies in comparative education 36. Hong Kong, China: Springer Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong. pp. 1–10.
  5. "Outstanding African Studies Award". www.asauk.net/awards-prizes. African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  6. "King, Kenneth J." Worldcat.org. OCLC . Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  7. Morgan, W. John (May 28, 2014). "Review Article: China's Aid & Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Education and Training. In Handbook of Education in China" . Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  8. Batchelor, Kathryn; Zhang, Xiaoling, eds. (26 June 2017). "6. Confucius Institutes in Africa. Culture and language without controversy?". China-Africa Relations: Building Images Through Cultural Co-operation, Media Representation, and Communication. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-351-85806-9.

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