The Colonial Transformation of Kenya
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The Colonial Transformation of Kenya

The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900 to 1939

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The Colonial Transformation of Kenya

The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900 to 1939

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Kenya’s central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area. This book analyzes the colonization of the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai who live there. Robert Tignor focuses on changes in education, wage laboring, involvement in the monetized market system, and anticolonial nationalism from about 1900 to 1939.

Although the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai all came under the influence of British administrators, settlers, and missionaries, the Kikuyu became most deeply involved in the colonial economy and polity of Kenya, taking the lead in activities spurned by the Kamba and Maasai. Examining the colonial records of all three peoples, Tignor compares these responses to European colonialism and advances our understanding of the nature of change under colonial rule.

Originally published in 1976.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. Preface
  5. Abbreviations
  6. I Introduction: The Creation of Colonial Societies in Kenya
  7. II Early Contacts: Pacification and Land Losses
  8. III Colonial Chiefs
  9. Appendix to Chapter III
  10. IV Maasai Warriors
  11. V Labor to 1914
  12. VI Education to 1914
  13. VII Labor in the 1920s
  14. VIII Labor in the Depression
  15. IX Education and the Kikuyu in the 1920s
  16. X Kikuyu Nationalism
  17. XI Education and the Kikuyu in the 1930s
  18. XII Kamba and Maasai Education in the Interwar Period
  19. XIII Kikuyu Agriculture
  20. XIV The Stock-Rearing Economies of the Maasai and Kamba: Problems of Overstocking
  21. XV Destocking and Kamba Nationalism
  22. XVI Conclusion: Three Societies in 1939
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index