An Outline History of Babukusu of Western Kenya
Author | : F. E. Makila |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Bakusu (Bantu tribe) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : F. E. Makila |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Bakusu (Bantu tribe) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Wafula Wekesa |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
ISBN | : 166691925X |
"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"--
Author | : Shadrack Amakoye Bulimo |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2013-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1466983302 |
The Luyia, like other Africans subsumed by imperialist conquest, are groping in the dark to find new meaning to their lives. By emigrating from tribal territory to towns, Luyia tribesmen lost strong communal links that bonded traditional society in which security of the individual was assured. The real danger, however, is the infiltration of neo-capitalism in the remotest villages, sweeping away what little is left of the culture of a bygone era. The need to preserve our cultural resources for future generations is critical. Colonial institutions radically altered traditional governance, economic and magico-religious structures. Clan elders, hitherto the pseudo-legal centers of political authority, were either conscripted into colonial administration as chiefs or simply shunted aside. Supplication to cult of the ancestor was replaced by Christianity where clergy rather than sacrificial priests became principal representatives of the deity. And where men spent the day hunting to secure a family meal, they now had to seek waged employment and pay taxes. Although these forces of Western acculturation introduced positive benefits to traditional technological processes, they were largely responsible for uprooting a people from an environment they had lived for generations and adapted to suit their needs to one driven largely by opportunism and uncertainty.
Author | : Shadrack Amakoye Bulimo |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 146697835X |
Unbeknownst to most, the Luyia Nation is a congeries of Bantu and assimilated Nilotic clans principally the Luo, Kalenjin, and Maasai. Created seventy years ago, the Luyia tribe is still evolving in a slow process that seeks to harmonize the historico-cultural institutions that define the eighteen subnations in Kenya alone. Available records indicate that geophysical spread of Luyia-speaking people extends beyond the Kenyan frontier into Uganda and Tanzania with some Luyia clans having extant brethren in Rwanda, Congo, Zambia, and Cameroon. The 862 Luyia clans in Kenya are amorphous units united only by common cultural and linguistic bonds. The political union between these clans is a pesky issue that has eluded the community since formation of the superethnic polity. Although postindependence scholars dismissed oral accounts of Egyptian ancestry, new anthropological evidence links the Bantu, including those in West Africa, to ancient Misri (Egypt). A major historical and cultural change in Buluyia occurred a little more than a century ago when natives first made contact with the Western world. The meeting in 1883 by a Scottish explorer, Joseph Thomson, with Nabongo Mumia, the Wanga king, laid the foundation for British imperialism in this part of Africa.
Author | : William Robert Ochieng' |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Kenya |
ISBN | : 9789966251527 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Baluyia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Simon Nganga |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3643909713 |
This book is about interactions in the funeral context among the Bukusu people of Kenya that brings together many religions. The author describes and accounts for hybridity as it is revealed by communicative techniques used by the priest and the comforter in the two communicative genres-the sermon and the traditional public comforting-that belong to the Christian and the Traditional Bukusu religions respectively. By approaching the co-existence of the two religions from a linguistic perspective, the study aims at ascertaining the relationship between the two religions. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to Africa Research / Beitr�¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 84) [Subject: Anthropology, African Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology]
Author | : Philip M. Peek |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1509 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135948720 |
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author | : Peter R. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2019-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351020889 |
Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies: Perspectives from Africa provides new ways to look at and think about the practice of community archaeology and heritage studies across the globe. Long hidden from view, African experiences and experiments with participatory archaeology and heritage studies have poignant lessons to convey about local initiatives, local needs, and local perspectives among communities as diverse as an Islamic community on the edge of an ancient city in Sudan to multi-ethnic rural villages near rock art sites in South Africa. Straddling both heritage studies and archaeological practice, this volume incorporates a range of settings, from practical experiments with sustainable pottery kilns in Kenya, to an elite palace and its hidden traditional heritage in Northwestern Tanzania, to ancestral knowledge about heritage landscapes in rural Ethiopia. The genesis of participatory practices in Africa are traced back to the 1950s, with examples of how this legacy has played out over six decades—setting the scene for a deeply rooted practice now gaining widespread acceptance. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage.
Author | : Shadrack W. Nasong'o |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1848137168 |
The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study of Kenya's political trajectory shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. It also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies. Thus, the authors argue, democratisation in Kenya is a laborious and non-linear process. Kenyans' recent electoral successes, the book concludes, have empowered them and reinvigorated the prospects for democracy, heralding a more autonomous and peaceful twenty-first century.