| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
African social studies series ; v. 34
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African social studies series ; v. 34.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Northern Frontier District of Kenya: people, place, and history -- Insurgency and counterinsurgency in borderland Kenya -- Sources and methodology -- Book -- The politics of NFD secession, 1960-63 -- Political campaign for secession -- Moderates and radicals -- Dabasso Wabera and Hajj Galm Dida -- Gaafchaama (the time of political parties) -- Conclusions -- The shifta -- Formation of the NFD LF -- Becoming shifta -- Support and opposition for shifta -- Conclusions -- The shifta conflict, 1963-68 -- NFD liberation campaign -- "These feuds are always there": the socioeconomic dynamics of a rural rebellion -- Conflict in Marsabit -- Saifaa -- Conclusions -- Government responses to conflict (1) counterinsurgency -- War against shifta -- Militarization of northern Kenya -- "They even called the camels shifta" -- Conclusions -- Government responses to conflict (2) villagization -- Roots of villagization -- Implementing villagization -- Villagization experience -- Conclusions -- Aftermath -- "What [is] the purpose of fighting for an empty land?'' -- "There has never been peace": continuity and change in the local political economy of violence -- "We are not people of farms" -- Conclusions. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya , Hannah Whittaker offers an in-depth analysis of the Somali secessionist war in northern Kenya, 1963-68. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1963-1978.
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Kenya. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1963-1978 |
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Kenya -- History.
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History. |
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Somalis -- Kenya.
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Somalis. |
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Kenya -- Boundaries -- Somalia.
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Boundaries. |
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Somalia. |
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Somalia -- Boundaries -- Kenya.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Whittaker, Hannah. Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya. 9789004282674 900428267X (DLC) 2014033817 |
| ISBN |
9004283080 (electronic book) |
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9789004283084 (electronic book) |
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9789004282674 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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900428267X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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