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Modern History of the Somali
Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
Av I.M. Lewis
Häftad, 2002
372 kr
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I.M. Lewis's classic text on the history of the Somali peoples.The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisation and the ingenuity with which the Somali way of life has adapted to all forms of modernity.North America: Ohio U Press
Modern History of the Somali
Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
Av I. M. Lewis
Häftad, 2003
430 kr
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This latest edition of A Modern History of the Somali brings I. M. Lewis's definitive history up to date and shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organization. Lewis's history portrays the ingeniousness with which the Somali way of life has been adapted to all forms of modernity.
From Guerrillas to Government
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Av David Pool
Häftad, 2001
372 kr
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Examines the tension and contradictions between the attributes of successful military and political struggle and those needed for governing in the post-independence period.The focus of this book is on the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) from its formation in the early 1970s to its victory …
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
Integration of an East African Commercial Empire Into the World Economy, 1770–1873
Häftad, 1987
402 kr
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The rise of Zanzibar was based on two major economic transformations. Firstly slaves became used for producing cloves and grains for export. Previously the slaves themselves were exported.Secondly, there was an increased international demand for luxuries such as ivory. At the same time the price of …
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905–1963
Häftad, 1987
362 kr
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This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands …
Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945–1953
Av David Throup
Häftad, 1987
402 kr
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This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining the social and economic causes of the Kikuyu revolt. Dr. Throup combines traditional Imperial History with its emphasis on the high politics of "The …
Siaya
The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape
Av David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Häftad, 1989
290 kr
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The authors of this highly original book set out to remove the persistent boundary between the authors and readers of ethnography on one hand and the subjects of ethnography on the other – those who observe and those who are observed.The authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of …
Mau Mau War in Perspective
Av Frank Furedi
Häftad, 1989
390 kr
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The book breaks new ground in following the story of the participants of the rural movement during the decade after the defeat of the Mau Mau. New archival sources and interviews provide exciting material on the mechanics of the sociology of decolonization and on the containment of rural radicalism …
Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya
The Dialectic of Domination
Av Bruce Berman
Häftad, 1990
544 kr
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This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring …
Changing Uganda
Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment
Av Hölger Bernt Hansen, Hölger Bernt Hansen m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
402 kr
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Yoweri Museveni battled to power in 1986. His government has impressed many observers as Uganda's most innovative since it gained independence from Britain in 1962. The Economist recommended it as a model for other African states struggling to develop their resources in the best interests of their …
Unhappy Valley Book One
Conflict in Kenya and Africa
Av Bruce Berman
Häftad, 1992
454 kr
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This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the authors have been exploring since 1976.The authors …
Swahili Origins
Swahili Culture and the Shungwaya Phenomenon
Häftad, 1993
455 kr
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Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa. Yet there can be few historic peoples whose identity is as elusive as that of the Swahili. Some have described themselves as Arabs, as Persians or even, in one place, as Portuguese. It is doubtful whether, even today, most of the people …
Being Maasai
Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa
Av Thomas Spear, Thomas Spear m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
491 kr
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Everyone "knows" the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have "become" …
Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940–1993
1940-1993
Av B. a. Ogot, B.A. Ogot m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
506 kr
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This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the book is a courageous reflection in the dilemmas of African nationhood.Professor B. A. Ogot says:"The main purpose of the book is to show that …
Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868–1928
Häftad, 1993
373 kr
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This is a history of the early days of Uganda. The account has an African focus because it shows the British takeover through the experiences of an extraordinary leader."At this spot in the year 1901 the British flag was first hoisted by Semei Kakanguru, emissary and loyal servant of His Majesty …
Religion and Politics in East Africa
The Period Since Independence
Av Hölger Bernt Hansen, Hölger Bernt Hansen m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
455 kr
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Religious activities have been of continuing importance in the rise of protest against postcolonial governments in Eastern Africa. Governments have attempted to "manage" religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas. Religious denominations have acted as advocates of human rights and in …
Mau Mau from Below
Eastern African Studies
Häftad, 1997
455 kr
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John Lonsdale says in his introduction:"This is the oral evidence of the Kikuyu villagers with whom Greet Kershaw lived as an aid worker during the Mau Mau 'Emergency' in the 1950s, and which is now totally irrecoverable in any form save in her own field notes.Professor Kershaw has uncovered long …
Jua Kali Kenya
Change and Development in an Informal Economy, 1970–1995
Av Kenneth King
Häftad, 1996
556 kr
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Kenya was where the term "informal sector" was first used in 1971. During the 1980s the term "jua kali"—in Swahili "hot sun"—came to be used of the informal sector artisans, such as carworkers and metalworkers, who were working under the hot sun because of a lack of premises. Gradually it came to …
Kampala Women Getting by
Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS
Häftad, 1996
418 kr
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What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of "serious enough" infections in themselves and signs of acute illness in their young children? How do they manage? What does it take to get by? How do they maintain the wellbeing of the household in a setting without what would be …
Controlling Anger
The Anthropology of Gisu Violence
Häftad, 1998
455 kr
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Controlling Anger examines the dilemmas facing rural people who live within the broader context of political instability. Following Uganda's independence from Britain in 1962, the Bagisu men of Southeastern Uganda developed a reputation for extreme violence.Drawing on a wide range of historical …
East African Expressions of Christianity
Av Thomas Spear, Thomas Spear m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
725 kr
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Christianity has been spread in Africa by Africans. It is the story of peoples seizing control of their own spiritual destinies—rather than the commonplace notion that the continent's Christian churches represent colonial and capitalist powers that helped subdue Africans to European domination. In …
Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda, 1985–97
Inbunden, 2000
1346 kr
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In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the "Holy Spirit Mobile Forces." With it she waged a war against perceived evil, not only an external enemy represented by the …
Poor Are not Us
Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa
Av David M. Anderson, David M. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
468 kr
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Eastern African pastoralists often present themselves as being egalitarian, equating cattle ownership with wealth. By this definition "the poor are not us", poverty is confined to non-pastoralist, socially excluded persons and groups.Exploring this notion means discovering something about …
Brothers at War
Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War
Av Tekaste Negash, Kjetil Tronvoll
Häftad, 2001
430 kr
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The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, which began in May 1998, took the world by surprise. During the war, both sides mobilized huge forces along their common borders and spent several hundred million dollars on military equipment. Outside observers found it difficult to evaluate the highly …
Pastimes and Politics
Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945
Av Laura Fair
Inbunden, 2001
1318 kr
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The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and …
From Guerrillas to Government
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Av David Pool
Häftad, 2001
556 kr
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In 1991 the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) took over Asmara and completed the liberation of Eritrea; formal independence came two years later after a referendum in May 1993. It was the climax of a thirty-year struggle, though the EPLF itself was formed only in the early 1970s.From the …
Empire State-Building
War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925–1952
Av Joanna Lewis
Häftad, 2001
635 kr
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This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change.It asks four questions:- Why was Kenya's welfare operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with that of other British colonies?- Why did a …
History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991
Av Bahru Zewde
Häftad, 2002
423 kr
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Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the southeast, and Eritrea and Djibouti to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal country in the geopolitics of the region. Yet it is important to understand this ancient and often splintered country in its own right.In A History …
Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia
The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century
Av Bahru Zewde
Häftad, 2002
613 kr
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In this exciting new study, Bahru Zewde, one of the foremost historians of modern Ethiopia, has constructed a collective biography of a remarkable group of men and women in a formative period of their country's history. Ethiopia's political independence at the end of the nineteenth century put this …
Remapping Ethiopia
Socialism & After
Av Wendy James, Wendy James m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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Governance everywhere is concerned with spatial relationships. Modern states "map" local communities, making them legible for the purposes of control. Ethiopia has gone through several stages of "mapping" in its imperial, revolutionary, and postrevolutionary phases.In 1986 The Southern Marches of …
