This book examines the history of community relations across the Kenya-Uganda border using the case of the Bukusu and the Bagisu. From this microcosmic level, the book explores the social, economic, and political relations that have evolved between the two communities and states over time.
The post-independence integration endeavor of the East African Community has been punctuated with challenges, culminating into the collapse of the 1967-1977 regional organization. The renaissance of the integration agenda since the re-establishment of the regional organization in 1999 has rekindled epistemological debate among scholars and ......
This book examines the political history of the last Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I and argues that Haile Selassie was the founder of centralized Ethiopia with access to the sea as well as the founder of modern Ethiopian diplomacy.
This book engages globalization from an archaeological and long-term perspective by using the case study of the historical interaction between China and East Africa. It raises questions of whether the greater connectivity that has emerged from globalization will lead to homogenization of culture, or the creation of a monoculture.
This book examines the discourse of development in Malawi and how it unfolded through a milliard of experts and institutions that expressed interest in the plight of the poor and yet did little to achieve their goals between the 1930s and 1983.
Through analysis of two communities in coastal Kenya, The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya argues that heritage construction is a discursive and selective process, that the landscape-both physical and mental-is the arena in which this process takes place, and that there are many conflicting and contested views of heritage.
This book critically examines the dialectical relationship between Ethiopian colonialism, Oromo culture, and the collective grievances of the Oromo nation. It identifies the chains of sociological and historical factors that developed the Oromo national movement and demonstrates how that movement is transforming Ethiopian imperial politics.
This book identifies the most important sources of intra-state conflict in the individual countries of the Horn of Africa. It explores the seriousness of the threats to the security of the states, their peoples, and the region; and it identifies the appropriate conflict resolution approach.
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tunisi set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where ......
