Dr. Fredrick O. Okaka: "Emerging (im)mobility trends along the LAPSSET corridor"

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[music] Speaker 1: On the go sprint lectures on African mobilities podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 2: Good afternoon everyone welcome to this edition of the sprint lecture series. Today we have Doctor Frederick Okoth Lokaka who is going to give us a presentation on the new mobility trends emerging from Kenya as a result of Kenya's Great LAPSSET project. Frederick Lokaka is a lecturer in the department of geography and environmental studies at Moi University. He is a member of the ACC Moi and he is also a collaborating researcher with the project Oil Movements the production and government of petromobilities. Just a little bit about Frederick. Frederick joined Moi before joining Moi University he had lectured at education at the university college of education in Zanzibar and he did his PhD in urban geography at Moi University and did some bit of postdoctoral research at the University of Venda in South Africa. Currently Frederick is based at Moi and is going to be giving us this talk. Frederick I open the floor up for you thank you. Speaker 1: Well thank you very much Paddy and everyone in attendance. I am going to present preliminary results of the research we are engaged in and the research is touching on oil and governance East Africa and the section I am going to present is in Kenya and touching on two nodes. So first of all I want to introduce you to what LAPSSET is all about. The LAPSSET project in Kenya is a mega infrastructural project which is aimed at linking the Lamu port in the Indian Ocean coast to the oil fields in one of the most marginal areas of Eastern Kenya which is called Turkana and it goes beyond that further to the landlocked countries of Southern Sudan and Ethiopia and the main infrastructural facilities that this project is aiming at developing pipeline oil pipeline railway and highway. So basically the megaproject that is the LAPSSET is a material constituent of the oil industry in Kenya and also the neighbouring region because that… Read the full text about 4,561 words

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