Decolonizing Maasai History
A Path to Indigenous African Futures
Zed Books · Print & ebook · January 23, 2025
In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns.Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but also about the relations between politics and Western history; about the untold history of Kenya both pre- and post-nationhood; about why the creation of nation-states is not synonymous with liberation; and about how and why Indigenous approaches to land obstruct global processes of resource extraction.
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- Who it’s for
- Maasai memory reframes Kenyan history and questions whether nation-states bring liberation.
- Genres
- East African History, Colonialism & Its Aftermath, Indigenous Studies
- Published
- Zed Books, January 23, 2025
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In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns.Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but also about the relations between politics and Western history; about the untold history of Kenya both pre- and post-nationhood; about why the creation of nation-states is not synonymous with liberation; and about how and why Indigenous approaches to land obstruct global processes of resource extraction.
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All of this finds wider resonances that upend received narratives of post-"independence" Africa and offer new opportunities for the emancipation of Indigenous communities from neo-colonial regimes the world over.Theebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Maasai Memory
Maasai memory reframes Kenyan history and questions whether nation-states bring liberation.
Come here for
- Maasai history grounded in Maasai memory and concerns
- The untold history of Kenya before and after nationhood
Expect
- An account of politics and Western history
- Indigenous approaches to land and resource extraction
Where it sits
| East African History | 74% |
|---|---|
| Indigenous Studies | 63% |
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- History
- Sociology
- Authors
- Meitamei Olol Olol Dapash, Mary Poole, Meitamei Dapash
- Publisher
- Zed Books
- Published
- January 23, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- History