The scattering time
Subtitle: Turkana responses to colonial rule
By: John Lamphear.
Series: Oxford studies in African affairs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Turkana (African people) -- Government relations.; Turkana (African people) -- History -- Sources.; Turkana (African people) -- Social conditions -- Sources.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations.; Turkana (Kenya) -- History -- Sources.
Description: "This is a study of the responses, especially the armed resistance, of the Turkana people of north-western Kenya to British colonial administration in the early twentieth century. From their first encounters with the colonial vanguard in the 1890s to the final surrender of the great Diviner, Loolel Kokoi, in 1926 many Turkana resisted imperial conquest. Even after the imposition of colonial rule, they continued to oppose the administration through a variety of strategies."--BOOK JACKET. "This is the first full study of the pastoral Turkana people. In exploring their responses to European colonialism John Lamphear makes extensive use of oral sources, as well as archival and published material. His analysis is also intended as an exercise in military history, and it addresses the fundamental question of why some African societies met the European advance with armed resistance while others did not. The Scattering Time makes an important contribution to the historiography of the imperial conquest of Africa and especially Kenya."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and index.