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This book explores pastoralist/ farmers' approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their responses and adaptations to famine, pandemics, natural disasters, and historical events. Using a dynamic adaptive cycle theoretical framework, it uses social memory to reconstruct an 'event history calendar', thus combining social memory and written historical records to reconstruct the adaptive strategies of pastoralists. It explores the climate history of the southern Ethiopian and northern Kenyan frontier, considering, in particular, the impact of the colonial period and independence thereafter, providing a significant contribution to debates in African environmental history. Gufu Oba is Professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. .

Human ecology --- Range ecology --- History. --- Africa --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Environmental History. --- African History. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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The South African economy has largely performed below its potential. Although the size of the South African economy has significantly increased since 1994, its performance has lagged behind other comparable economies, and has even been overtaken by Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa. Unemployment, income inequality, and poverty have remained high since 1994. In the past decade, South African economic performance has been so poor that is has resulted in declining per capita incomes. In this study, Vusi Gumede and his co-authors offer a comprehensive analysis of the South African economy since 1994, dealing with many important issues, ranging from its history to its political travails in an effort to provide better understanding and find possible solutions to ensuring inclusive growth. Vusi Gumede is the Dean for the Faculty of Economics, Development & Business Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga. Santos Bila is with DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg. Mduduzi Biyase is an associate professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg. Shonisani Chauke is a lecturer in Economics in the School of Development Studies at the University of Mpumalanga. Sodiq Arogundade is a research fellow and a part-time assistant lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg.

Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Africa --- Economic history. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- African History. --- Economic History. --- African Economics. --- African Politics. --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government.

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This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist destinations. This book makes a case for a critical reading of Victoria Falls as much more than a localized natural wonder. Europeans with multiple and often competing agendas, as well as African leaders and laborers were brought into contact with one another at Victoria Falls. Their visions of the past and hopes for the future shared Victoria Falls as a common point of inspiration. The value these parties placed on the Falls extended far beyond its location on the Zambezi and had broad implications for the British Empire in Southern and Central Africa. .

History. --- History, Modern. --- Africa --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Great Britain --- African History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Modern History. --- Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe) --- Social conditions. --- Colonies --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- Annals --- Africa-History. --- Great Britain-History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- World history --- Africa—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- 1800-1999 --- Africa. --- Zimbabwe --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Zambia

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“This volume makes a compelling case for the powerful influence of key individuals acting on behalf the US and British governments on Kenyatta’s political evolution. Addressing the long-neglected theme of the specific process by which a neo-colonial regime succeeded colonial rule, this is an invaluable contribution to the fields of Kenyan and modern African history.” –Robert Maxon, Professor of History, West Virginia University, USA The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa. It analyzes the nature and extent of the collaboration between Kenyatta, Britain and Western intelligence services to install and protect his government in Kenya—a collaboration which is linked to some of Kenya's most intractable political, social and economic problems. Drawing heavily on primary sources, it examines the legacy of Kenyatta's regime, and how this legacy is felt in Kenya today.

Colonies --- Law and legislation. --- Colonial law --- Law, Colonial --- Law --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- Imperialism. --- Great Britain-History. --- Africa-Politics and government. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- African Politics. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Africa—Politics and government.

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This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobility to wilderness, historiography to violence, resistance to development, King details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also critiquing scholars’ tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on the past in Africa’s southernmost mountains, this book grapples with concepts relevant to those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers, both in Africa and the wider world.

Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- Imperialism. --- Social history. --- Archaeology. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Social History. --- African Culture. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Ethnology—Africa.