Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya
Subtitle: a social history of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968
By: by Hannah Whittaker
Series: African social studies series -- v. 34; African social studies series -- v. 34.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789004282674
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Autonomy and independence movements; Somalis; Boundaries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Northern Frontier District of Kenya: people, place, and history --; title: Insurgency and counterinsurgency in borderland Kenya --; title: Sources and methodology --; title: The book -- -- The politics of NFD secession, 1960-63; title: The political campaign for secession --; title: Moderates and radicals --; title: Dabasso Wabera and Hajj Galm Dida --; title: Gaafchaama (the time of political parties) --; title: Conclusions -- -- The shifta; title: The formation of the NFD LF --; title: Becoming shifta --; title: Support and opposition for shifta --; title: Conclusions -- -- The shifta conflict, 1963-68; title: The NFD liberation campaign --; title: "These feuds are always there": the socioeconomic dynamics of a rural rebellion --; title: Conflict in Marsabit --; title: Saifaa --; title: Conclusions -- -- Government responses to conflict (1) counterinsurgency; title: The war against shifta --; title: The militarization of northern Kenya --; title: "They even called the camels shifta" --; title: Conclusions -- -- Government responses to conflict (2) villagization; title: The roots of villagization --; title: Implementing villagization --; title: The villagization experience --; title: Conclusions -- -- Aftermath; title: "What [is] the purpose of fighting for an empty land?'' --; title: "There has never been peace": continuity and change in the local political economy of violence --; title: "We are not people of farms" --; title: Conclusions.