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A Tapestry of African Histories

Editat de Nicholas K. Githuku
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2023
This book studies African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other relevant histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes historical figures, struggles for independence and stability, social and economic development, and legal and human rights issues.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781793623959
ISBN-10: 1793623953
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Lexington Books

Cuprins

Introduction: The Future of History: Transtemporal, Transnational across Geographical Borders
Nicholas Kariuki Githuku
Chapter 1: On Writing Kenyäs History
John Lonsdale
Chapter 2: From the Upper Delaware River to the Banks of the Monongahela via Lake Victoria
Robert M. Maxon
Chapter 3: Myth and Reality in the Forging of a Kenyan National History: Oginga Odingäs Heroism
Robert M. Maxon
Chapter 4: Daniel arap Moi: A Challenge for Historians
Robert M. Maxon
Chapter 5: Ainsworth after Dark: The Pied Piper of African Development in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1920?
Okia Opolot
Chapter 6: Challenge to African Democracy: The Activism and Assassination of Pio Gama Pinto
Godriver Odhiambo
Chapter 7: Eastlands, Nairobi: Memory, History, and Recovery
Betty Wambui
Chapter 8: Plagues and Pestilences in Late Nineteenth-Century Samburuland
George L. Simpson, Jr., and Peter Waweru
Chapter 9: The Evolution of Imperial Social Development Policy and Practice in British Sudan: A Comparative Case Study of the Gezira and Zande Schemes
Joseph M. Snyder
Chapter 10: Illusions about a Boom in Cotton Production in Southern Nyanza during the Depression, 1929-1939
Peter Odhiambo Ndege
Chapter 11: Community Development in Post-Independence Malawi: Deciphering Some Local Voices
Gift Wasambo Kayira
Chapter 12: Regime Policing and the Stifling of the Human Rights Agenda: Late Colonial and Post-Colonial Malawi, 1948-Present
Paul Chiudza Banda
Chapter 13: The Constitution and Change-the-Constitution Debate in Independent Kenya, 1963-2002
Anne Nangulu
Chapter 14: The Building Bridges Initiative Déjà vu: "A Whitewash Process Taking Us Forward by Taking Us Backwards¿
Nicholas Kariuki Githuku and Robert Maxon
Chapter 15: House of Mlungulä ¿Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm:¿ Of Computer ¿Glitches,¿ Moving Human Fingers and Illicit Financial Flows
Nicholas Kariuki Githuku