The people who produced Jomo Kenyatta, first president of independent Kenya. Full colour illustrations. USA, ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the origins, the society, history, and religious beliefs of the Akamba of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the society, history, customs and rituals of the Ameru of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A study of the Bantu peoples of the North Kavirondo District in Western Kenya records the extensive field research carried out by the author between 1934 and 1938. Collects volumes 1 and 2. Index, 695pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Study of the Oromo religion in Kenya that portrays the dynamics of pastoralism there as an important phenomenon for our understanding of the modern African nation-states, and the challenge it poses to the centralization of the modern post-colonial state in Kenya. The author explores religion and ritual, which have tended to be among the less researched aspects of cultural, political andnational identity. Notes, bib, index, 286pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Presents a close ethnographic account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the unforeseen changes wrought by development - greater wealth for some, dashed hopes for many more - foster moral debates that Taita people express in occult terms. 272pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and violence. The Turkana are one of the world's most mobile peoples, but understanding why and how they move is a complex task influenced by politics, violence, historical relations among ethnic groups, and the government, as well as by the arid land they call home. Index, bib, notes, xvii, 301pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS.

Focuses on a spate of witch-killings that has been underway in Gusii, southwestern Kenya, since 1992. It integrates the testimony of participants of and witnesses to the incidents of witch-killing with other ethnographic and socio-economic information in order to understand what led to the sudden rise of this violence in November 1992 and its rapid decline in July 1994. Offers an analysis of the interface between the global and the local that is at the crux of individual experience. Demonstrates how, in this era of globalization, the forces of the free market that are set into motion in one part of the world are experienced and interpreted in another as the workings of the supernatural. 204pp, USA. EDWIN MELLEN PRESS.

Brings together essays on a wide variety of the forms of local, national and global identities: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land, Youth and Music. 180pp, KENYA. TWAWEZA COMMUNICATIONS.

First in a planned series of books on the relationship between art and society, with special reference to Kenya. This volume brings together important reflections on the arts and is amajor step in encouraging dialogue on the relationship between creativity and the human condition in the region. Significantly, it creates a space for university-basedacademics to engage in dialogue with artists and writers based outside institutions of higher learning. Their conversations hope to bridge the gap between the two domains for knowledge production and enrich creative enterprise in Kenya, in theory and practice. 260pp, KENYA. TWAWEZA COMMUNICATIONS.

A volume assessing contemporary life in Kenya and the history of the country, looking especially at ethnic and cultural diversity and cross cultural influences. Illustrated with b/w photographs and includes a chronology and a glossary. Index, xx, 233pp, USA. GREENWOOD.

A survey of the history, society and traditions of the ElMolo of northern Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

An anthropological classic. Bib, maps, 325pp, USA. VINTAGE USA.

Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s, the Mukogodo were Cushitic-speaking foragers (hunters, gatherers, and beekeepers). However, changes brought on by British colonial policies led them to move away from life as independent foragers and into the orbit of the high-status Maasai, whom they began to emulate. Today, the Mukogodo form the bottom rung of a regional socio-economic ladder of Maa-speaking pastoralists. Index, bib, gloss, 172pp, USA. WESTVIEW.

A study of the Gabra, a small group of pastoralists who live in the arid, lava strewn lunar landscape of northern Kenya. Like other people living in that desert area, they are nomads, but they have a unique culture that distinguishes them from their neighbours, the Borana, Rendille, Samburu and Somali. Index, botanic gloss, line drawings, app, bib, xxi, 434pp. KENYA. PAULINES PUBLICATIONS AFRICA.

Examines the impact of mature colonialism in East Africa on the Gusii and on their strategies to maintain wealth in a era of rapid social change. Girl Cases is a marvelous social history of the epidemic of girl cases that seemed to challenge the very nature of Gusii concepts of wealth and security. In an era of increasing bridewealth and stagnating wages, Gusii elders increasing turned to the native courts to control both young women and young men. Index, bib, photos, 304pp, USA. HEINEMANN USA INC.

Minorities and indigenous peoples in Kenya feel excluded from the economic and political life of the state. They are poorer than the rest of Kenya's population, their rights are not respected and they are rarely included in development of other participatory planning processes. This report discusses the abuse of ethnicity in Kenyan policies, arguing that ethnicity is a card all too often used by Kenyan politicians to favour certain communities over others in the share of the nation's wealth. 40pp, UK. MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP.

A survey of the society, history, initiation ceremonies and family life of the Kipsigis of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

An illustrated portrait of the rituals and lives of the Maasai. The author show how the Maasai have resisted European encroachment over 100 years but since independence of Kenya and Tanzania and the creation of a modern nation state, have been forced to make difficult choices about their collective futures. Well illustrated with over 100 colour photographs. Foreword by Elspeth Huxley. Chapters include Initiation, Manhood, Womanhood and Dilemma. 192pp, KENYA. CAMERAPIX.

A survey of the society, traditions, history and culture of the Luo of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Study of a sub-group of the greater Kalenjin community, the majority of whom live in the Rift Valley Province, a community in transition, both from its belief systems and in its broad structure and organisation. 102pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

A survey of the society, customs, history, and rituals of the Mijikenda of the coastal region of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead. Mostly written in the field, this is the first book-length ethnography completely devoted to Samburu divinity and belief. 320pp, USA. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Drawing on extensive research among Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, this study focuses on non-monetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity to propose a new view of the social and symbolic dimensions of economy over the full life course, including transfers between generations. Examines how Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. Borrowing, lending, and serial passing along have ritual, religious, and emotional dimensions no less than economic, and insight into these connections demands a broad rethinking of all international aid plans and programmes. 312pp, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An intimate study of modernisation and nationalisation in rural Kenya in the early years of the country's independence, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a village outside Nairobi which was a research site of the Child Development Research Unit from 1968 to 1973. The study documents how families adapted to changing opportunities and conditions as their country became a modern nation, and the key role that women played as agents of change as they became small scale cash crop farmers and entrepreneurs. Includes long term reassessments of the observations and conclusions of the research team and a description of Ngecha today as viewed by Kenyans who participated in the original study. BNS, 280pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS.

Explores the way of life of the Boni community, a hunter-gatherer people that straddle the Kenya/Somali border in East Africa. The Boni converted to Islam some fifty years ago and the reasons for this, both internal and external to the community, are identified. The book argues that former indigenous religious activity, far from having died out, is now being renegotiated so as to reflect an evolving Boni self-identity in a multi-ethnic setting as well as allowing the fermentation of resistance in the face of attempts at cultural hegemony advanced by outside forces. 298pp, NETHERLANDS. BRILL.

A report arguing that the material base of pastoralism has all but been eliminated in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya through climate change, conflict, disease, drought and famine. Bib, 36pp, UK. MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP.

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A survey of the society, history, culture and daily life of the Pokot people of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

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A survey of the society, history, customs and rituals of the Rendille of Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A detailed ethnographic study examining the society of the Samburu, a nomadic Kenyan people. First published in 1965. Index, bib, notes, maps, xxxiii, 341pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A survey of the society, history, religion and rituals of the Samburu of northern Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

For more than a century a substantial South Asian minority has been living in Kenya. Within a few decades a majority of the Kenyan Asians has managed to transform their living conditions from an impoverished rural background in South Asia to a globalised and economically successful middle class in East Africa. This study, based on empirical data collected with South Asians in Kenya, who were differentiated by gender, age, migratory generation and other social boundaries, is divided into three levels of analysis: inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic relations, i.e. the relations within the South Asian minority, as well as the relations within families. What emerges is a complex 'geography of intersectionality', which demonstrates that migration has an impact on the relations between genders, age groups and migratory generations and leads to changing identities and new lifestyles. Apps, bib, tables, b/w photos, 299pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

For this latest project, Steve Bloom has stepped away from the magnificent wildlife and landscape photography with which he made his name to create a unique portrait of the small traders of Nairobi. This is a place where slick advertising has made few inroads and shopping malls and supermarkets remain a rarity. As across Africa, that is an opportunity for an outpouring of creativity. Businessmen and women paint their own hoardings and signs, or call in friends who happen to be handy with a paintbrush. 144pp, UK. THAMES & HUDSON.

A survey of the society, history, economy, culture and contemporary life of the Turkana of north-eastern Kenya. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Based on extensive interviews, the author describes the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya from the earliest times. Told through narrations, songs, chants, riddles and personal recollection. Index, bib, notes, map, xi, gloss, 395pp, USA. CALIFORNIA U P.

Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. This account explores how the challenges and frustrations of both colonial rule and independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates of widowhood have been remarkably high in Kenya. Yet despite their numbers, widows and their families exist at the margins of society, and their lives act as a barometer for the harsh realities of rural Kenyan life. Mutongi argues that widows survive by publicly airing their social, economic, and political problems and concludes that this strategy has led to the development of a new language of citizenship and a demand for greater political recognition that would have been unthinkable under colonial rule. 240pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.