Protecting trans boundary cultural knowledge and expressions: remodeling Kenya’s traditional knowledge and cultural expressions act in line with east African integration
| dc.contributor.author | Mbole, Miriam Kalee | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-07T18:32:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-07T18:32:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description | Available in print form, Eat Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library,(THS EAF KRD.K4M26) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study evaluates the protection of Kenya’s transboundary traditional knowledge and cultural expressions vis-à-vis the East African integration agenda. Kenya hosts a number of cross border communities with neighboring East Africa Community states who share the same culture. The Kenyan law on traditional knowledge cultural expressions vests ownership of such intellectual property on the communities through a nationally established regulatory agency. The researcher used a combination of both primary and secondary methods of data, question based interviews where used to collect information’s from the government officials and the community representatives. The study found out that the Kenya law on the protection of traditional knowledge and cultural expressions inadequate in protecting transboundary TK/TCEs. This makes the knowledge and the culture of such communities vulnerable and easily exploitable without benefiting the communities. The study recommends amongst others that the EAC legislative authority regional framework of safeguard the protection of cross-border traditional knowledge and cultural expressions, creates institutions in charge of the community TK/TCEs establishment of EAC TK/TCEs repository and harmonization of EAC partner states laws on protection of tradition knowledge and cultural expression. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mbole, M. K. (2019) Protecting trans boundary cultural knowledge and expressions: remodeling Kenya’s traditional knowledge and cultural expressions act in line with east African integration. Masters dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://41.86.178.5:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/15904 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Dar es Salaam | en_US |
| dc.subject | Intellectual property | en_US |
| dc.subject | Indegenous Knowledge | en_US |
| dc.subject | East African Integration | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kenya | en_US |
| dc.title | Protecting trans boundary cultural knowledge and expressions: remodeling Kenya’s traditional knowledge and cultural expressions act in line with east African integration | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |