Siaya by Dw Cohen
A book written both for and about the Luo.-
Unhappy Valley Book One
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Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia
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A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991
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A Modern History of the Somali
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A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
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Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule
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Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits
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Property Rights and Political Development in Ethiopia and Eritrea
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History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town
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War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa
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Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa
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Brothers at War
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Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia
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Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa
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Changing Uganda
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From Guerrillas to Government
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Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970
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Kampala Women Getting By
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The Poor Are Not Us
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Remapping Ethiopia
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East African Expressions of Christianity
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Mau Mau from Below
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Swahili Origins
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African Underclass
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Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-93
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Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya
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Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
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Empire State-Building
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Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
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Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63
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The Mau Mau War in Perspective
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Multi-party Politics in Kenya
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Black Poachers, White Hunters
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Developing Uganda
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Uganda Now
.. grassroots social history at its very best. * ANTHROPOS *
This is the sort of book that many of us would like to have written. - -- Richard Waller * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *
Africa is so difficult for the outsider to understand, so easy to oversimplify or misinterpret. If more of it were revealed through the revealing and highly readable technique of this book, the world would have a far clearer picture of why Africa is the way it is. - -- Richard Dowden * THE INDEPENDENT *
...one of the most refreshing and important works of East African history for many years... . The beauty of the book is the way in which it shows how the landscape of Siaya, in western Kenya, near the Lake, is simultaneously fixed by Nature in that place, yet is carried as a frame of reference in the minds and hopes of the migrants who flow to the compounds of the cities. Their chapter entitled 'Forms in the Siaya Landscape' is a vital new element in the debate about migration: The presumption that migrations reveal a social topography of broken relations deserves challenge (p.17) . It leads naturally to a discussion about the construction of boundaries which are in both space and time (through invented history) - and to the multiple forms that the landscape of Siaya takes in the minds of people of Siaya, whether at home or away. Home is where the placenta is buried. As for Martin Luther, it is ein feste Burg (in Luo gunda bur - the ancient fortified village site), both visible and invisible. It is all music to this reviewer's ears. - -- Gwyn Prins * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *
This is the sort of book that many of us would like to have written. - -- Richard Waller * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *
Africa is so difficult for the outsider to understand, so easy to oversimplify or misinterpret. If more of it were revealed through the revealing and highly readable technique of this book, the world would have a far clearer picture of why Africa is the way it is. - -- Richard Dowden * THE INDEPENDENT *
...one of the most refreshing and important works of East African history for many years... . The beauty of the book is the way in which it shows how the landscape of Siaya, in western Kenya, near the Lake, is simultaneously fixed by Nature in that place, yet is carried as a frame of reference in the minds and hopes of the migrants who flow to the compounds of the cities. Their chapter entitled 'Forms in the Siaya Landscape' is a vital new element in the debate about migration: The presumption that migrations reveal a social topography of broken relations deserves challenge (p.17) . It leads naturally to a discussion about the construction of boundaries which are in both space and time (through invented history) - and to the multiple forms that the landscape of Siaya takes in the minds of people of Siaya, whether at home or away. Home is where the placenta is buried. As for Martin Luther, it is ein feste Burg (in Luo gunda bur - the ancient fortified village site), both visible and invisible. It is all music to this reviewer's ears. - -- Gwyn Prins * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780852550359 |
| ISBN 10 | 0852550359 |
| Title | Siaya |
| Author | Dw Cohen |
| Series | Eastern African Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | James Currey |
| Year published | 1989-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |