Decolonizing Maasai History
A Path to Indigenous African Futures
Author(s)
Olol Dapash, Meitamei Olol
Poole, Mary
Language
EnglishAbstract
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. 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.
Keywords
Maasai; Maasai history; settler colonialism; neocolonialism; settler colonialism in Africa; neocolonialism in Africa; African independence; post-independence Africa; nation states in Africa; African history; Indigenous studies; Indigenous activismDOI
10.5040/9781350427402ISBN
9781350427426, 9781350427419Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
London, 2024Imprint
Zed BooksClassification
African history
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous people: governance and politics