John Waldford, "Distribution of staff working at the Kenya National Archives in 1982 (Walford, 1982)", contributed by Angela Okune, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 5 August 2019, accessed 25 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/distribution-staff-working-kenya-national-archives-1982-walford-1982
Critical Commentary
AO: This table by Walford (1982) and republished in Mnjama (2003) outlines the distribution of staff during the "golden age of the Kenya National Archives" under Kagombe. It gives us a sense of the third Chief Archivist (who served from 1974-1981), Dr. Maina Kagombe's expansive view of what the National Archives might include. Kagombe was critiqued for over-extending the mandate of the National Archives and incorporating a wide range of non-archival functions (Mnjama 2003).