Organizational Communication and Project Management in Project Uhuru & NARC's 100 Days by Jane Waithera is a fascinating analysis of the organizational mechanics of Kenya African National Union's (KANU) Project Uhuru. Named after Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, age 41, the youngest leading presidential candidate Kenya has ever had; Project Uhuru was the campaign created by the powerful second president of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi to promote the election of his chosen presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta.

The author eloquently compares the stages of project planning and organizational communication within the KANU party with the intricacies of our own business organizations. She clearly demonstrates how issues of project planning, colleague relationships, appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication, conflict handling and resolution, negotiations, team building, and many other factors essential in good business management played out in the implementation of project Uhuru- and in your own place of employment; making this book a compelling must-read for everyone interested in learning good business management skills.

From a business administration perspective, Jane shows the reader how the decisions of KANU and President Moi parallels the corporate decision-making process, and gives her readers plenty of food for thought as to how they may have seen or even been involved with similar situations in their own workplaces. She has chosen a fabulous and unique model to use as an explanation of organizational communication and critique of business management and organizational communication techniques.

I am very impressed by both the content - in which the author objectively portrays the situations as they happened - and by the style she uses to so clearly illustrate the ways in which a political organization works just like a modern corporation. Western readers will get a glimpse into an entirely different culture, in which ethnic and modern ways vie for equally important status, and will be honoured to witness the rights and processes of modern Kenyans in their journey of self-governance as Jane Waithera leads us through the growing pains of this young democracy to the successful completion of its goal.