Kipsigis Heritage and Origin of Clans
Author: Bill Rutto
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9789966570192
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The Kipsigis
Author: Ian Q. Orchardson
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 141
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKenya
Author: Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMinorities and indigenous peoples in Kenya feel excluded from the economic and political life of the state. They are poorer than the rest of Kenya's population, their rights are not respected and they are rarely included in development of other participatory planning processes. This report discusses the abuse of ethnicity in Kenyan policies, arguing that ethnicity is a card all too often used by Kenyan politicians to favour certain communities over others in the share of the nation's wealth. Kenya: Minorities, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Diversity exposes these concerns in detail via the analysis of budgetary expenditure in the poor Turkana region, which is dominated by the minority Turkana people, and in the richer Nyeri region, home of Kenya's current President. The author, Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo, calls for immediate action to address the inequalities and marginalization of communities, as a way of ensuring that Kenya remains free of major conflict. It calls for disaggregated data - by ethnicity and gender - and a new Constitution to devolve power away from the centre, so that minority and indigenous peoples stand to benefit from current and new development programmes.The report argues that Kenya's diversity should be its strength and need not be a threat to national unity. Suppressing and denying ethnic diversity is the quickest route to inter-ethnic conflict and claims of succession. The report calls for urgent action.
Lake Victoria
Author: Joseph L. Awange
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-08-18
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 3540325751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes a pioneering and unique work on Lake Victoria. It is the world’s second largest fresh-water lake and supports the livelihood of more than 30 million people. Surprisingly, there has been no comprehensive book addressing its problems and potentials. Ecology, environmental pollution and resource management are some of the issues addressed by this comprehensive insight into the limitations, challenges and opportunities facing Lake Victoria.
Red-spotted Ox
Author: Kaparketo Domonguria
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788791563706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRed Spotted Ox is the fascinating autobiography of an East African pastoralist, as told to Pat Robbins in the early 1970s. Domonguria lived near the Kenya - Uganda border during a time of rapid cultural change. In this book, he describes Pokot traditions and history, while also recounting his fights with lions and enemies, initiation rites, raids, scandals, romances, sorcery and celebrations. Through one man's unique perspective, his autobiography documents a rich cultural heritage - its rituals, songs, legends, values, and it challenges to survive.
Ethnography of the Gusii of Western Kenya
Author: John Sorana Akama
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe editors have edited a book of essays relating to the Gusii of Western Kenya. This is very significant work since it is a comprehensive study of a culture that is disappearing, and which very little has been written about. The editors have grouped the essays into five parts, each of which focuses upon a different aspect of the Gusii: The Origin and Evolution of the Gusii; Social and Political Institutions; Initiation and Marriage Ceremonies; Land Tenure System and Usage; and Other aspects of Gusii Culture and Ethnography.
Obama and Kenya
Author: Matthew Carotenuto
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2016-07-29
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0896804925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama’s ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya’s past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial “tribal” violence, the story of the United States president’s nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical portrayals of Africa. At the same time, Kenyan state officials have aimed to weave Obama into the contested narrative of Kenyan nationhood. Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular but inaccurate texts about Kenya’s history and Obama’s place in it as well as focused, thematic analyses of contemporary debates about ethnic politics, “tribal” identities, postcolonial governance, and U.S. African relations.
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
Author: Stephen O. Murray
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1438484119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring. Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans or Arabs. In fact, same-sex love and nonbinary genders were and are widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents the presence of this diversity in some fifty societies in every region of the continent south of the Sahara. Essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines explore institutionalized marriages between women, same-sex relations between men and boys in colonial work settings, mixed gender roles in east and west Africa, and the emergence of LGBTQ activism in South Africa, which became the first nation in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Also included are oral histories, folklore, and translations of early ethnographic reports by German and French observers. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands was the first serious study of same-sex sexuality and gender diversity in Africa, and this edition includes a new foreword by Marc Epprecht that underscores the significance of the book for a new generation of African scholars, as well as reflections on the book's genesis by the late Stephen O. Murray. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Murray Hong Family Trust. Access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1714.
Africa and the Middle East
Author: John Middleton
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780816118151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReference source for interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, historical, social, political, economic, and religious information for more than 1,500 cultural groups.
The Sirius Mystery
Author: Robert Temple
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 0099257440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most academically credible case for alien visitation. Is the existance of civilisation on earth the result of contact from inhabitants of a planet in the system of the star Sirius prior to 3000BC? There are tribal cultures in present-day Africa whose most sacred and secret and traditions are based on this theory. Central to their cosmology is a body of knowledge concerning the system of the star Sirius that is astounding it in its accuracy of detail, including specific information only recently accessible to modern science. Robert Temple traces the traditions of the Dogon and three related tribes back 5, 000 years to the ancient Mediterranean cultures of Sumer and Egypt. He shows a knowledge dependent on physics and astrophysics, which they claimed was imported to them by visitors from Sirius.
