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Title: | The socioeconomic dynamics of the shifta conflict in Kenya, c. 1963-8 |
Authors: | Whittaker, H |
Keywords: | Kenya;Somalia;War;Postcolonial |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Citation: | Journal of African History, 53(3), 391 - 408, 2012 |
Abstract: | Using a set of oral testimonies, together with military, intelligence, and administrative reports from the 1960s, this article re-examines the shifta conflict in Kenya. The article moves away from mono-causal, nationalistic interpretations of the event, to focus instead on the underlying socioeconomic dynamics and domestic implications of the conflict. It argues that the nationalist interpretation fails to capture the diversity of participation in shifta, which was not simply made up of militant Somali nationalists, and that it fails to acknowledge the significance of an internal Kenyan conflict between a newly independent state in the process of nation building, and a group of ‘dissident’ frontier communities that were seen to defy the new order. Examination of this conflict provides insights into the operation of the early postcolonial Kenyan state |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7797 |
ISSN: | 0021-8537 |
Appears in Collections: | History Brunel Law School Research Papers |
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