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This established series, like our Western Africa series, embraces a range of disciplines: history, politics and economics, development studies, gender studies, anthropology and the social sciences. While the focus has been on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, the series also includes the Great Lakes, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan, and stretches its coverage towards the north, with titles on Egypt, Kivu and the eastern Congo. We encourage submissions that are comparative, across country, time and discipline. Some titles are published in association with the British Institute in East Africa.

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32 results in Eastern Africa Series

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Decolonising State and Society in Uganda

A Political Ecology of Kenya's Mau Forest
  • The Land, the Trees, and the People
  • Lisa Elena Fuchs
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    21 February 2023
  • A timely and important examination of the environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that reveals why previous conservation efforts failed.

Kenya's and Zambia's Relations with China 1949-2019
  • Jodie Yuzhou Sun
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    17 January 2023
  • Examines the history of post-colonial Kenya's and Zambia's relations with the People's Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives.

Women's Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa
  • Edited by Birgit Englert, Elizabeth Daley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    03 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2008
  • In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights are contested or upheld.

Gender, Home and Identity
  • Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
  • Katarzyna Grabska
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • This book analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence.

The State of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Land, Urban Development and State-Building in Juba, Southern Sudan
  • Naseem Badiey
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 February 2023
    Print publication:
    21 August 2014
  • Traces the dynamics of state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan 2005-2011, revealing how underlying ties of ethnicity and land dominated the actions of the various parties in post-conflict reconstruction and how these may continue to influence power and resource-sharing in the newly independent state of South Sudan.

Disrupting Territories

Reimagining the Gendered Nation
  • Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya
  • Christina Kenny
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2022
    Print publication:
    15 November 2022
  • Explores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building.

Sport and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa
  • Towards Building Institutional Foundations
  • Edited by Kidane Mengisteab
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    15 May 2020
  • Analyses the structural and institutional obstacles to democratization in transitional societies - fractured societies, fragmented economies and institutions of governance, weak or deformed state structures - and how to overcome these.

Imperialism and Development
  • The East African Groundnut Scheme and its Legacy
  • Nicholas Westcott
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    19 September 2020
  • A compelling exploration of one of the most ill-advised and calamitous interventions in colonial development history.

Remaking Mutirikwi
  • Landscape, Water & Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
  • Joost Fontein
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    18 June 2015
  • The Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land appropriations in the 1890s. But African landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. They remained active and affective. At independence in 1980, local clans reasserted ancestral land claims in a wave ofsquatting around Lake Mutirikwi. They were soon evicted as the new government asserted control over the remaking of Mutirikwi's landscapes. Amid fast-track land reform in the 2000s, the same people returned again to reclaim the land. Many returned to the graves and ruins of past lives forged in the very substance of the soil, and even incoming war veterans and new farmers appealed to autochthonous knowledge to make safe their resettlements.
    This book explores those reoccupations and the complex contests over landscape, water and belonging they provoked. The 2000s may have heralded a long-delayed re-Africanisation of Lake Mutirikwi, but just as African presence had survived the dam, so white presence remains active and affective through Rhodesian-era discourses, place-names and the materialities of ruined farms, contour ridging and old irrigation schemes.
    Through lenses focused on the political materialities of water and land, this book reveals how the remaking of Mutirikwi's landscapes has always been deeply entangled with changing strategies of colonial and postcolonial statecraft. It highlights how the traces of different pasts intertwine in contemporary politics through the active, enduring yet emergent, forms and substances of landscape.

    Joost Fontein is Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

    Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
  • Helen Dancer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    16 April 2015
  • Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a "land rush" and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how have women experienced this? This book seeks to re-orientate current debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in action. Drawing on the author's ethnographic research in the Arusha region of Tanzania, it explores how the country's land law reforms have impacted on women's legal claims to land. Centring on cases involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which women are realising their interests in land through land courts and follows the progression of women's claims to land - from their social origins through processes of dispute resolution to judgment.
    Dancer's work explores three central issues. First, it considers the nature of women's claims to land in Tanzanian family contexts, the value of land in an era of land reform and the 'land rush' across Africa, and the extent to which the social issues raised are addressed by Tanzania's current laws and legal system. Secondly, it examines how agency and power relations between social and legal actors engaged in legal processes affect women's access to justice and the progression of claims. Thirdly, it explores Tanzanian concepts of justice and rights and how women's claims have been judged by land courtsin practice.

    Helen Dancer is a lecturer in Law at the University of Brighton. She practised as a barrister in England specialising in family legal aid cases prior to training as a legal anthropologist. She is also a consultant for Future Agricultures at IDS, University of Sussex. Her areas of research interest include law and development, gender and land, and human rights and legal pluralism.

Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis
  • The Shepherd's Melody in Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
  • Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Joan Campbell Huguet
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 May 2021
  • Here translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez's widely hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis focuses on a single vivid passage from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia
  • 1300-1700
  • Mohammed Hassen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 August 2015
  • This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's development, rebutting the common depiction of the Oromo as no more than a destructive force and demonstrating their significant role in shaping the course of Ethiopian history.Tracing the early history of the Oromo as part of the Cushitic language speaking family of peoples, it establishes that they were neither foreigners nor newcomers to Ethiopia, but have been an integral part of the indigenous population since at least the first half of the 14th century. The massive sixteenth-century pastoral Oromo population movement revolutionized relations between the Christians and the Oromo. During the long process of assimilation that followed, with periods of both war and peace in central and southern Ethiopia, Oromo society was able to absorb and assimilate Cushitic and Semitic language speakers and Oromize them through the open, democratic and egalitarian 'Gada' system; while in northern Ethiopia the Oromo themselves were absorbed into Christian Amhara society.Mohammed Hassen is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Georgia State University. His books include 'The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570 to 1860' (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He is a Contributing Editor of 'The Journal of Oromo Studies' and 'The Horn of Africa' journal.

Darfur
  • Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and local politics, 1916-1956
  • Chris Vaughan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 October 2015
  • This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either straightforward continuity or utterly transformative change from the region's deep history of independent statehood under the Darfur Sultanate. This book argues that neither view is adequate: it shows that British rule bequeathed a culture of governance to Darfur which often rested on state coercion and violence, but which was also influenced by enduring local conceptions of the relationship between ruler and ruled, and the agendas of local actors.
    The state was perceived as a resource as well as a threat by local peoples. Although the British did introduce significant changes to the character of governance in Darfur, local populations negotiated the significance of these innovations, challenging the authority of state-appointed chiefs, defying official attempts to police the boundaries of ethnic territories, and competing for the resources of political support and development that the state represented. Even the violence of the state was shaped and channelled by the initiative of local elites. Finally, the author suggests that contemporary conflict and politics in the region must be understood in the context of this deeper history of interaction between state and local agendas in shaping everyday realities of power and governance.

    Chris Vaughan is Lecturer in African History at Liverpool John Moores University. Previously, he taught at the Universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool and Edinburgh. His articles have appeared in the Journal of African Historyand the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He is co-editor (with Lotje De Vries and Mareike Schomerus) of The Borderlands of South Sudan.

The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya
  • Religious Encounter & Social Change in the Great Lakes c. 1865–1935
  • Emma Wild-Wood
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    30 April 2020
    Print publication:
    17 April 2020
  • A vivid portrayal of Kivebulaya's life that interrogates the role of indigenous agents as harbingers of change under colonization, and the influence of emerging polities in the practice of Christian faiths.

Nairobi in the Making
  • Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging
  • Constance Smith
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    18 October 2019
  • Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban anthropology, the politics of the past and postcolonial materialities.

Tanzanian Development
  • A Comparative Perspective
  • Edited by David Potts
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2019
    Print publication:
    19 April 2019
  • An up-to-date, comparative, examination of the developing economy of Tanzania and its grass roots progress out of poverty, with pointers to its wider implications for policymakers, NGOS and practitioners.

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