{"product_id":"a-tapestry-of-african-histories-with-longer-times-and-wider-geopolitics-9781793623959","title":"A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor Nicholas Githuku sharply exposes Kenya’s contemporary moral economy of corruption and the many illicit financial flows that hide stolen riches…. For anyone interested in Kenya, this is an important book despite, or even because of, the array of disparate contributions. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Future of History: Transtemporal, Transnational across Geographical Borders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Kariuki Githuku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: On Writing Kenya’s History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Lonsdale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: From the Upper Delaware River to the Banks of the Monongahela via Lake Victoria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert M. Maxon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Myth and Reality in the Forging of a Kenyan National History: Oginga Odinga’s Heroism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert M. Maxon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Daniel arap Moi: A Challenge for Historians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert M. Maxon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Ainsworth after Dark: The Pied Piper of African Development in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1920?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkia Opolot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Challenge to African Democracy: The Activism and Assassination of Pio Gama Pinto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGodriver Odhiambo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Eastlands, Nairobi: Memory, History, and Recovery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetty Wambui\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Plagues and Pestilences in Late Nineteenth-Century Samburuland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge L. Simpson, Jr., and Peter Waweru\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: The Evolution of Imperial Social Development Policy and Practice in British Sudan: A Comparative Case Study of the Gezira and Zande Schemes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph M. Snyder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Illusions about a Boom in Cotton Production in Southern Nyanza during the Depression, 1929-1939\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Odhiambo Ndege\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Community Development in Post-Independence Malawi: Deciphering Some Local Voices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGift Wasambo Kayira\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Regime Policing and the Stifling of the Human Rights Agenda: Late Colonial and Post-Colonial Malawi, 1948-Present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Chiudza Banda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: The Constitution and Change-the-Constitution Debate in Independent Kenya, 1963-2002\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Nangulu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: The Building Bridges Initiative Déjà vu: \"A Whitewash Process Taking Us Forward by Taking Us Backwards”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Kariuki Githuku and Robert Maxon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: House of Mlungula— “Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm:” Of Computer “Glitches,” Moving Human Fingers and Illicit Financial Flows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Kariuki Githuku\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042649801047,"sku":"9781793623959","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793623959.jpg?v=1750955011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-tapestry-of-african-histories-with-longer-times-and-wider-geopolitics-9781793623959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}