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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya: A Social History of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968: African Social Studies Series, cartea 34

Autor Hannah Whittaker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 2014
In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya, Hannah Whittaker offers an in-depth analysis of the Somali secessionist war in northern Kenya, 1963-68. Combining archival and oral data, the work captures the complexity of the conflict, which combined a series of local, national and regional confrontations. The conflict was not, Whittaker argues, evidence of the potency of Somali nationalism, but rather an early expression of its failure. The book also deals with the Kenyan government’s response to the conflict as part of the entrenchment of African colonial boundaries at independence. Contrary to current narratives of an increasingly borderless world, Whittaker reminds us of the violence that is produced by state-led attempts to shore up contested borderlands. This work provides vital insights into the history behind the on-going troubled relationship between the Kenyan state and its Somali minority, and between Kenya and Somalia.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004282674
ISBN-10: 900428267X
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria African Social Studies Series


Cuprins

Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction
The Northern Frontier District of Kenya: People, Place, and History
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Borderland Kenya
Sources and Methodology
The Book

2. The Politics of NFD Secession, 1960-3
The Political Campaign for Secession
Moderates and Radicals
Dabasso Wabera and Hajj Galm Dida
Gaaf Chaama (the Time of Political Parties)
Conclusions

3. The Shifta
The Formation of the NFDLF
Becoming Shifta
Support and Opposition for Shifta
Conclusions

4. The Shifta Conflict, 1963-8
The NFD Liberation Campaign
“These Feuds are Always There”: the Socioeconomic Dynamics of a Rural RebellionConflict in Marsabit
Salfaa
Conclusions

5. Government Responses to Conflict (1): Counterinsurgency
The War against Shifta
The Militarization of Northern Kenya
“They Even Called the Camels Shifta”
Conclusions

6. Government Responses to Conflict (2): Villagization
The Roots of Villagization
Implementing Villagization
The Villagization Experience
Conclusions

7. Aftermath
“What is the Purpose of Fighting for an Empty Land?”
“There has Never Been Peace”: Continuity and Change in the Local Political Economy of Violence
“We are Not People of Farms”
Conclusions

8. Conclusion

Sources and Bibliography


Notă biografică

Hannah Whittaker, Ph.D. (2011), SOAS, University of London, is currently a Lecturer in History at Brunel University. Her research mainly focuses on borderlands and violence in North East Africa.

Recenzii

'The book does accomplish its goal of presenting a local view of the insurgency. It is therefore an important contribution to understand the genesis, unfolding and consequences of the Shifta secession movement in Kenya'.

Tabea Scharrer, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, in Islamic Africa 7 (2016), 121-123