Ebook: Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Author: Julie MacArthur
- Tags: History, Cartography, Politics, Colonialism, Colonial History, Ethnogenesis, Censuses, Ethnicity, Ethnic identities, British colonialism, Imperialism, Luyia (African people) -- Kenya -- History, Kenya -- Ethnic relations -- History, Society, Ethnic relations, Luyia (African people), Kenya, Mapping, Geography, Historical geography, Nationalism, Gender, Decolonization
- Series: New African Histories 103
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Ohio University Press
- City: Athens
- Language: English
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After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name - 'Luyia' - appeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic 'invention'. In this volume, which encompasses social history, geography and political science, Julie MacArthur unpacks Luyia origins.