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Kenya's Nubians : then & now / Greg Constantine ; foreword by Yash Pal Ghai ; introduction by Korir Sing'Oei.

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Kenya's Nubians : then & now / Greg Constantine ; foreword by Yash Pal Ghai ; introduction by Korir Sing'Oei.
Author
Constantine, Greg, 1970-
Publication
[Bangkok] : Nowhere People, [2011]

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  • Ghai, Yash P., 1938-
  • Abraham, Korir Sing'Oei.
Description
148 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
"Nubians were conscripted from the Sudan by the British and brought to Kenya and Uganda at the end of the 19th century as conscripts to help in its imperial mission of the annexation of Kenya and Uganda and to fight the major world wars on its behalf. However, even before the second great war of the 20th century, the usefulness of the Nubians to Britain had been expended. But the British both rejected the request of Nubians to return to their ancestral home (still under British control) and failed to make suitable arrangements for their continued stay in Kenya. At independence, their status and livelihood were left, at best, ambiguous, with no guarantee of citizenship or a place in the future Kenya ... It is therefore no surprise that the Nubians have not fared well in independent Kenya"--P. 5.
Alternative Title
Kenya's Nubians : then and now
Subject
  • Nubi (African people) > Kenya > Portraits
  • Stateless persons > Kenya > Portraits
  • Nubi (African people) > Ethnic identity
  • Documentary photography > Kenya
  • Nubians > Kenya > Social conditions > Pictorial works
  • Kibera (Kenya)
  • Kenya > Ethnic relations
  • Kenya > Social conditions > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Note
  • "Nubians were conscripted from the Sudan by the British and brought to Kenya and Uganda at the end of the 19th century as conscripts to help in its imperial mission of the annexation of Kenya and Uganda and to fight the major world wars on its behalf. However, even before the second great war of the 20th century, the usefulness of the Nubians to Britain had been expended. But the British both rejected the request of Nubians to return to their ancestral home (still under British control) and failed to make suitable arrangements for their continued stay in Kenya. At independence, their status and livelihood were left, at best, ambiguous, with no guarantee of citizenship or a place in the future Kenya ... It is therefore no surprise that the Nubians have not fared well in independent Kenya"--P. 5.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780983834601
  • 0983834601
LCCN
^^2012311014
OCLC
  • 774867874
  • SCSB-11154086
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library