The longevity of colonial interventions in Baringo, in the Rift Valley of Kenya is used as a focus for the study of the broader evolution of colonial ideologies and practices of development. 336pp, bib, index, charts, maps. UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852554680

Using participatory research techniques, household surveys, and in depth person to person interviews, this study explores the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya, focusing in particular on women as a socially vulnerable group. Case studies are drawn from three districts in Kenya, Embu, Thika and Bondo. Refs, apps, map, notes, tables, graphs, x, 214pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, 0796920540

Investigates how and why a group of ranch members in Kajiado District, Kenya, supported the subdivision of their collective landholdings into individual, titled units, and what outcomes resulted in this transition to individual rights. Viewed over a longer time scale, the author finds that politics is at the core of institutional change: land-owners seek increasingly exclusive rights in an effort to defend their land claims against threats of appropriation by the state, by Massai elite, and by non-Massai. 240pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Autobiography of Kenya's wildlife saviour, who battled the President, poachers and serious injuries in his quest to stop the slaughter of elephants. . B/w photos, map, index. xi, 319pp. USA. ST MARTIN'S PRESS.