History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border

Peter Wafula Wekesa

doi:10.5771/9781666919257

Summary

History, Identity, and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border analyzes issues of history, identity, and the Bukusu-Bagisu relations on the Kenya and Uganda border. From this microcosmic level, Peter Wafula Wekesa explores forms of trans-border social, economic, and political relations that have evolved between the two communities since the pre-colonial period. Utilizing both primary and secondary sources, Wekesa presents the context within which border relations between the two groups emerged and were transformed over time. This book delves into the history of relations between the two peoples that had long developed before the European colonial partition. The partition, as Wekesa observes, not only ignored African interests, but also generally entrenched western notions of the border that contradicted African conceptions of space. These western notions were augmented by the colonial and independent government policies that froze the historical solidarities that had existed between the two communities. However, colonial and independent government policies generated contradictions over the Bukusu-Bugisu borderland area that made the control of the interactions between the two communities within the distinct geopolitical spaces problematic. As such, both formal and informal dynamics made the common Bukusu-Bugisu borderland a site of numerous permutations.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1924-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1925-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Maps and Tables No access
3. 1. Maps No access
  2. Tables No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgements No access
6. List of Abbreviations No access
7. Note on Orthography No access
1. The Bukusu and Bagisu Context No access
2. Scope of the Book No access
3. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The People No access
3. Territorial and Administrative Terrain No access
4. Relief and Climate No access
5. Physical and Natural Resources No access
6. Summary No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Historicising the Deep Past of the Bukusu and the Bagisu No access
3. The Migration Problem among the Western Kenyan and Eastern Ugandan Bantu Communities No access
4. The Bukusu in the History of the Luyia Community of Western Kenya No access
5. The Bagisu in the History of Eastern Ugandan Communities No access
6. The Historical Basis of the Bukusu–Bagisu Relations to 1894 No access
7. Summary No access
1. Introduction No access
2. From Pre-colonial to Colonial: The Kenya–Uganda Border in Context No access
3. The Early European Power Politics and the Border to 1902 No access
4. Early Colonial Administration, the Border and Bukusu–Bagisu Relations to 1920 No access
5. Bukusu–Bugisu Borderland and the New Socio-Economic Relations to 1945 No access
6. Summary No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Decolonisation and Identity Boundaries: The Context No access
3. The Colonial State, Ethnicity and the Early Political Associations No access
4. Dini Ya Musambwa and Pan-African Decolonisation 1945–1950 No access
5. From DYM Pan-Africanism to State Nationalism and Independence 1950–1963 No access
6. Summary No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Independence and Border Dynamics: Theoretical Issues and debates No access
3. The National Community, OAU and Border Relations 1962–1967 No access
4. Interstate Relations, the Border and Economic Regionalism 1967–1980 No access
5. Border Bukusu–Bagisu Relations and the Failure of Economic Regionalism No access
6. The Informal Economy and the Border Bukusu–Bagisu Relations to 1980 No access
7. Summary No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Dwindling State Economies and Renewed Regionalism No access
3. Regionalism and the Kenya–Uganda Borderland: The States Response, 1980–1997 No access
4. Regionalism and the Kenya–Uganda Borderland: Bukusu–Bagisu Initiatives to 1997 No access
5. Summary No access
Conclusion No access Pages 175 - 186
Bibliography No access Pages 187 - 198
Appendix 1 No access Pages 199 - 200
Appendix 2 No access Pages 201 - 202
Appendix 3 No access Pages 203 - 204
Appendix 4 No access Pages 205 - 206
Index No access Pages 207 - 212
About the Author No access Pages 213 - 214