Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from
transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-A -vis
high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in
responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public
transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal
transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of
inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice
learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and
other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have
ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the
globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for
ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service,
provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a
mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African
entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic,
political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological
and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the
political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By
adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number
of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu
is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving
metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a
self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book
is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
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