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A tapestry of African histories : with longer times and wider geopolitics
- Title
- A tapestry of African histories : with longer times and wider geopolitics / edited by Nicholas K. Githuku.
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Githuku, Nicholas K. (Nicholas Kariuki)
- Description
- xxx, 359 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Future of History: Transtemporal, Transnational across Geographical Borders / Nicholas Kariuki Githuku -- On Writing Kenya's History / John Lonsdale -- From the Upper Delaware River to the Banks of the Monongahela via Lake Victoria / Robert M. Maxon -- Myth and Reality in the Forging of a Kenyan National History: Oginga Odinga's Heroism / Robert M. Maxon -- Daniel arap Moi: A Challenge for Historians / Robert M. Maxon -- Ainsworth after Dark: The Pied Piper of African Development in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1920? / Okia Opolot -- Challenge to African Democracy: The Activism and Assassination of Pio Gama Pinto / Godriver Odhiambo -- Eastlands, Nairobi: Memory, History, and Recovery / Betty Wambui -- Plagues and Pestilences in Late Nineteenth-Century Samburuland / George L. Simpson, Jr., and Peter Waweru -- 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 -- Illusions about a Boom in Cotton Production in Southern Nyanza during the Depression, 1929-1939 / Peter Odhiambo Ndege -- Community Development in Post-Independence Malawi: Deciphering Some Local Voices / Gift Wasambo Kayira -- Regime Policing and the Stifling of the Human Rights Agenda: Late Colonial and Post-Colonial Malawi, 1948-Present / Paul Chiudza Banda -- The Constitution and Change-the-Constitution Debate in Independent Kenya, 1963-2002 / Anne Nangulu -- The Building Bridges Initiative Déjà vu: "A Whitewash Process Taking Us Forward by Taking Us Backwards" / Nicholas Kariuki Githuku and Robert Maxon -- House of Mlungula- "Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm:" Of Computer "Glitches," Moving Human Fingers and Illicit Financial Flows / Nicholas Kariuki Githuku.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1515
- ISBN
- 9781793623935
- 1793623937
- LCCN
- 2021039579
- OCLC
- 1258669537
- Title
- A tapestry of African histories : with longer times and wider geopolitics / edited by Nicholas K. Githuku.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Githuku, Nicholas K. (Nicholas Kariuki), editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-1515