This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them. It focuses on the savannahs of the Baringo-Bogoria basin, and the surrounding highlands of Kenya's northern Rift Valley that form the social-ecological system of the specialised cattle pastoralists and niche agricultural farmers who occupy these semi-arid lands. Historical studies of resilience spanning the past two centuries are linked with analysis of current...
This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently re...
The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers employed locally recruited militias - styled as 'loyalists' - to fight their 'dirty wars'.
These loyalist histories have been neglected in the nationalist narratives that have dominated the post-decolonization landscape, and this book offers the first...
The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were ...
