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After more than fifty years of development, why have interventions and aid failed to yield greater poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why did the agricultural development projects that were transpiring in places like Kenya during the "development era" of the 1950s and 1960s not take-off? Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya during the "Development" Era explores these questions and others that continue to drive the research agendas of international aid agencies and development scholars in the twenty-first century. The book centers on four agricultural development projects unfolding in a densely populated rural area of western Kenya during the country's transition to independence and its first few years under de facto one-party rule. Drawing on an array of primary sources and oral interviews, Saeteurn argues that the project of agrarianism failed to germinate in places like western Kenya because of competing interests, conflicting agendas, and structural problems inherent in the process of development at the international, national, and local level. Cultivating Their Own is a timely reminder of the importance of paying attention not only to local people's aspirations but also to the realities of rural life when creating projects that mobilize agriculture for poverty reduction.

Agriculture --- Agriculture and state --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- African agriculture. --- Agricultural development. --- Kenyan development. --- democratization. --- local aspirations. --- poverty alleviation. --- poverty reduction. --- rural life. --- rural projects. --- socio-economic state structures. --- transitional societies. --- western Kenya.

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African traditions --- the study of religion in Africa --- gender --- vitality of indigenous religions --- diaspora --- religion and society --- religion in society --- peacemaking in Africa --- Western Kenya --- religious pluralism --- secularization --- Nigeria --- faith --- spiritualism --- materialism --- religion and economy --- ancestral veneration --- national symbols --- moral transformation --- expiatory sacrifice --- the Early Church --- African indigenous religious traditions --- gender dynamics --- African immigrant religions --- women's leadership roles in Aladura Churches --- USA --- second-generation youth in West Indian Pentecostalism --- New York City --- London --- ritual purity in Yoruba religious traditions --- Christian women's organizations --- the Northern Nigerian Muslim woman --- economic crisis and religious puritanism