The Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900 to 1939

by Robert L. Tignor

Kenya's central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area. This book analyzes the colonization of the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai who live there. Robert Tignor focuses on changes in education, wage laboring, involvement in the monetized market system, and anticolonial nationalism from about 1900 to 1939.

Although the Kamba,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691617376
• ISBN13: 9780691617374
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"