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Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-93
Kenyan historians chart Kenya's post-independence years. In this text, a group of Kenyan historians provide an analysis of the history of the 30 years since Kenya's independence in …
Developing Uganda
This volume assesses Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986. Uganda's recovery has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given …
Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa
The dominant trend in pastoralist studies has long assumed that pastoralism and pastoral gender relations are inherently patriarchal. The contributors to this collection, in …
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region. Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region …
Uganda Now
Essential overview of Uganda's National Resistance Movement's desperate inheritance. Uganda's recovery has been remarkable, but when this book was being written, Museveni's …
Mau Mau and Nationhood
Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. More than fifty years after the declaration of the state of …
Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa
A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and …
Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History
This new edition features a substantial introduction by the author. Helge Kjekshus's new introduction to his book placeshis work within the context of the growing debate on ecology …
Custodians of the Land
This volume explores the relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania. In his conclusion, Isaria Kimambo reflects on the efforts of …
Changing Uganda
Examines the dilemmas of introducing revolutionary changes in an African country deeply affected by structural adjustment. Yoweri Museveni battled to power in 1986 and his …
Black Poachers, White Hunters
A study of hunting and poaching during the colonial era in Kenya. In 1977 the Kenyan government banned all hunting, whether by sportsmen or Kenyan Africans, in response to the …
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
Examines slavery in the Great Lakes region and the complex role of Africans from the interior in the trade. Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region than often has been …