Decolonizing Maasai History : A Path to Indigenous African Futures /
<B>In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. </b>Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they u...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Zed Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | <B>In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. </b>Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but also about the relations between politics and Western history; about the untold history of Kenya both pre- and post-nationhood; about why the creation of nation-states is not synonymous with liberation; and about how and why Indigenous approaches to land obstruct global processes of resource extraction. All of this finds wider resonances that upend received narratives of post-"independence" Africa and offer new opportunities for the emancipation of Indigenous communities from neo-colonial regimes the world over. <i>Theebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.</i> |
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| Item Description: | Introduction Chapter 1: Maasai History and the Strategies of Neocolonialism Chapter 2: Kenyamal Enkop: The History of Maasailand Occupation Chapter 3: Melo Enkop: The Story of Mau Narok Chapter 4: Amboseli: The Past and Future of Conservation in Maasailand Chapter 5: Olosho Le Maa and the Long Century of Anti-Colonial Resistance Conclusion: Entisere (the Future) Bibliography Index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350427402 1350427403 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350427402 |