Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women

Abstract

to military and political action is unclear. while the media reporting surveyed showed there were problems and danger on the horizon, it is apparent in the work that the stories and associated knowledge were unlikely to have compelled more vigorous or alternate action by policy makers. it leaves the question, would more intense, more consistent or more sensational coverage have compelled greater action? From the reporting surveyed by Soderlund and Briggs it is clear that there were conflict dynamics and structures existing in South Sudan but what to do and when remained unclear. The work provides a valuable entry point into South Sudan politics as well as an understanding of the role of the media in conflict. it sets up a number of important questions that need deeper research in the South Sudan and other cases. overall, it is an important contribution to the discourse on how the media influences humanitarian intervention and international action in conflicts. it further raises the spectre of what humanitarian intervention should occur in the face of knowing and reasonably anticipating violence and atrocity.