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After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously
unknown ethnic name-"Luyia"-appeared on the official census in
1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic
"invention." At the same time, current restrictive theories
privileging ethnic homogeneity fail to explain this defiantly
diverse ethnic project, which now comprises the second-largest
ethnic group in Kenya. In Cartography and the Political
Imagination, which encompasses social history, geography, and
political science, Julie MacArthur unpacks Luyia origins. In so
doing, she calls for a shift to understanding geographic
imagination and mapping not only as means of enforcing imperial
power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for
articulating new political communities and dissent. Through
cartography, Luyia ethnic patriots crafted an identity for
themselves characterized by plurality, mobility, and cosmopolitan
belonging. While other historians have focused on the official maps
of imperial surveyors, MacArthur scrutinizes the ways African
communities adopted and adapted mapping strategies to their own
ongoing creative projects. This book marks an important
reassessment of current theories of ethnogenesis, investigates the
geographic imaginations of African communities, and challenges
contemporary readings of community and conflict in Africa.
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and
collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than
Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel
forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the
1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau
Mau rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant,
modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and
subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and
turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Dedan Kimathi on Trial
unearths a piece of the colonial archive long thought lost, hidden,
or destroyed. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an
already contentious history and prompts fresh examinations of its
reverberations in the present. Here, the entire trial transcript is
available for the first time. This critical edition also includes
provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting
on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of
Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary
concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral
arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and
the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary
Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas
Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by
Willy Mutunga.
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BabyWorld (Paperback)
Mister-Lucky; Edited by Julie McArthur; Jonathan Martin Dixit
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R455
Discovery Miles 4 550
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After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously
unknown ethnic name-"Luyia"-appeared on the official census in
1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic
"invention." At the same time, current restrictive theories
privileging ethnic homogeneity fail to explain this defiantly
diverse ethnic project, which now comprises the second-largest
ethnic group in Kenya. In Cartography and the Political
Imagination, which encompasses social history, geography, and
political science, Julie MacArthur unpacks Luyia origins. In so
doing, she calls for a shift to understanding geographic
imagination and mapping not only as means of enforcing imperial
power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for
articulating new political communities and dissent. Through
cartography, Luyia ethnic patriots crafted an identity for
themselves characterized by plurality, mobility, and cosmopolitan
belonging. While other historians have focused on the official maps
of imperial surveyors, MacArthur scrutinizes the ways African
communities adopted and adapted mapping strategies to their own
ongoing creative projects. This book marks an important
reassessment of current theories of ethnogenesis, investigates the
geographic imaginations of African communities, and challenges
contemporary readings of community and conflict in Africa.
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and
collective imaginations of Kenya's decolonization era more than
Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel
forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the
1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau
Mau rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant,
modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and
subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and
turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Dedan Kimathi on Trial
unearths a piece of the colonial archive long thought lost, hidden,
or destroyed. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an
already contentious history and prompts fresh examinations of its
reverberations in the present. Here, the entire trial transcript is
available for the first time. This critical edition also includes
provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting
on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of
Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary
concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral
arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and
the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary
Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas
Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by
Willy Mutunga.
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