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In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Future of History: Transtemporal, Transnational across Geographical Borders
Nicholas Kariuki Githuku

Chapter 1: On Writing Kenya's History
John Lonsdale

Chapter 2: From the Upper Delaware River to the Banks of the Monongahela via Lake Victoria
Robert M. Maxon

Chapter 3: Myth and Reality in the Forging of a Kenyan National History: Oginga Odinga's Heroism
Robert M. Maxon

Chapter 4: Daniel arap Moi: A Challenge for Historians
Robert M. Maxon

Chapter 5: Ainsworth after Dark: The Pied Piper of African Development in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1920?
Okia Opolot

Chapter 6: Challenge to African Democracy: The Activism and Assassination of Pio Gama Pinto
Godriver Odhiambo

Chapter 7: Eastlands, Nairobi: Memory, History, and Recovery
Betty Wambui

Chapter 8: Plagues and Pestilences in Late Nineteenth-Century Samburuland
George L. Simpson, Jr., and Peter Waweru

Chapter 9: The Evolution of Imperial Social Development Policy and Practice in British Sudan: A Comparative Case

Product details

Published Oct 18 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 390
ISBN 9781793623935
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 4 b/w photos; 4 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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