A Tapestry of African Histories by Nicholas K Githuku

A Tapestry of African Histories by Nicholas K Githuku

In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pertinent histories both within and outside of the continent. The collection analyzes the pre- and post-colonial eras within African countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Sudan, examining major historical figures and events, struggles for independence and stability, contemporary urban settlements, social and economic development, as well as constitutional, legal, and human rights issues that began in the colonial era and persist to this day.

Editor Nicholas Githuku sharply exposes Kenya’s contemporary moral economy of corruption and the many illicit financial flows that hide stolen riches…For anyone interested in Kenya, this is an important book despite, or even because of, the array of disparate contributions. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.

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Nicholas K. Githuku is assistant professor of African History at CUNY, York College.

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ISBN 13	9781793623959
ISBN 10	1793623953
Title	A Tapestry of African Histories
Author	Nicholas K Githuku
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Lexington Books
Year published	2023-09-15
Number of pages	390
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