The Contested Lands of Laikipia
The Contested Lands of Laikipia

Author: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9004435204

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Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.

Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

Author: Leila Koivunen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-11-19

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1135856125

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This study provides the first sustained analysis of the process by which images of Africa were transformed into the illustrations of the continent that appeared in nineteenth-century European travel books. Koivunen examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated.