Response to Maendeleo: changing perceptions amongst the Pokot of Nginyang in a period of transition

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Title:	Response to Maendeleo: changing perceptions amongst the Pokot of Nginyang in a period of transition
Author:	Muir, C. Ann
Year:	1985
Issue:	14
Language:	English
Series:	Occasional papers (ISSN 1363-0342)
City of publisher:	Edinburgh, Scotland
Publisher:	Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	Suk sedentarization
Abstract:	Of the approximately 90,000 Pokot, three quarters are pastoralists. The author worked as a health and development worker among Pokot women in Nginyang Division (Kenya) - where all Pokot are pastoralists - between 1980 and 1982 and returned to the area in 1985. The study deals with people's changing perceptions in their transition from pastoralism to increasing sedentarization and integration into a mixed capitalistic economy. There is tremendous pressure on the Pokot to 'develop', and this is epitomized in the Kiswahili word maondeloo (progress) which is used by both government and non-government agencies.