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A Tapestry of African Histories
With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics
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2021
Summary
In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2393-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2394-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
359
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Introduction: The Future of History: Transtemporal, Transnational across Geographical Borders No access
1 On Writing Kenya’s History No access Pages 1 - 20
2 From the Upper Delaware River to the Banks of the Monongahela via Lake Victoria No access Pages 21 - 42
3 Myth and Reality in the Forging of a Kenyan National History: Oginga Odinga’s Heroism No access Pages 43 - 62
4 Daniel arap Moi: A Challenge for Historians No access Pages 63 - 86
5 Ainsworth after Dark: The Pied Piper of African Development in Colonial Kenya, 1895–1920? No access Pages 87 - 112
6 Challenge to African Democracy: The Activism and Assassination of Pio Gama Pinto No access Pages 113 - 134
7 Eastlands, Nairobi: Memory, History, and Recovery No access Pages 135 - 160
8 Plagues and Pestilences in Late Nineteenth-Century Samburuland No access Pages 161 - 178
9 The Evolution of Imperial Social Development Policy and Practice in British Sudan: A Comparative Case Study of the Gezira and Zande Schemes No access Pages 179 - 202
10 Illusions about a Boom in Cotton Production in Southern Nyanza during the Depression, 1929–1939 No access Pages 203 - 222
11 Community Development in Post-Independence Malawi: Deciphering Some Local Voices No access Pages 223 - 244
12 Regime Policing and the Stifling of the Human Rights Agenda: Late Colonial and Postcolonial Malawi, 1948–Present No access Pages 245 - 268
13 The Constitution and Change-the-Constitution Debate in Independent Kenya, 1963–2002 No access Pages 269 - 292
14 The Building Bridges Initiative Déjà Vu: “A Whitewash Process Taking Us Forward by Taking Us Backwards” No access Pages 293 - 316
15 House of Mlungula—“Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm”: Of Computer “Glitches, ”Moving Human Fingers and Illicit Financial Flows No access Pages 317 - 344
