East Africa

by Maxon, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9781933202464
• ISBN10: 1933202467
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: West Virginia Univ Pr

Summary

In this third and revised edition of East Africa An Introductory History Robert M. Maxon revisits the diverse eastern region of Africa. , including the modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. With revised sections and a new preface, this comprehensive text surveys East Africa's political, economic, and social history from pre-colonial to modern times. Maxon reveals the physical movement and societal development of and between ethnic groups before the 1890s: the capitalistic impact of European colonialism in the early nineteenth century; and the achievement and aftermath of independence in East Africa during the later part of this century. East Africa: An Introductory History, 3rd and Revised Edition offers the student and scholar.

Author Biography

Robert M. Maxon is Professor of History at West Virginia University. He served as an Education Officer in Kenya from 1961-64 and has served as a visiting professor of history at Moi University in Kenya on four separate occasions. Maxon has carried out research in East Africa on numerous visits since 1968.

Table of Contents

East African Geography
Topography	p. 1
Climate	p. 4
Vegetation and Soil	p. 6
The Peopling of East Africa To C. 1000 A.D.
Early Stone Age	p. 12
Middle Stone Age	p. 12
Late Stone Age	p. 13
Populations and Languages of East Africa	p. 15
Food Production and Iron Working	p. 21
The Early Iron Age and Bantu Migrations	p. 24
Early Nilotic Migrations	p. 30
Population Interaction and Absorption	p. 32
The East African Coast To 1800
The Coastal Plain	p. 35
Azania: The Coast to 1000 A.D.	p. 37
The Swahili Period: 1000-1500	p. 39
The Coming of Portuguese Dominance: 1500-1600	p. 44
The Decline of Portuguese Control: 1600-1700	p. 47
The Omani Period at the Coast: 1700-1800	p. 50
The East African Interior: C.1000 To 1650
Uganda	p. 53
The Rise of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms: Bunyoro-Kitara	p. 53
Origin of the Kingdom of Nkore	p. 27
Buganda Origins	p. 59
Lwoo Migration into Uganda	p. 61
Lwoo Migration within East Africa	p. 62
Kenya	p. 64
Highlands Nilotes	p. 65
Plains Nilotes	p. 67
Bantu and River-Lake Nilotes of Western Kenya: the Luhya and the Luo	p. 69
The Thagicu Peoples	p. 72
Mainland Tranzania	p. 74
West Lake Region: the Haya States	p. 76
West Central Tanzania: the Ntemi Chieftaincies	p. 76
Eastern Tanzania	p. 78
The East African Interior from the MID-Seventeenth to MID-Nineteenth Century
Uganda	p. 81
Bunyoro-Kitara	p. 83
Kabarega and the Rejuvenation of Bunyoro	p. 84
Bugada: Territorial Expansion	p. 85
Centralization and Strengthening of the Monarchy in Buganda	p. 87
The Kingdom of Nkore	p. 89
The Kingdom of Toro	p. 90
Lwoo-Speaking Communities	p. 90
Karamojong-Teso Movements	p. 91
Kenya	p. 93
Highlands Nilotes	p. 94
Plains Nilotes	p. 95
Western Kenya: the Luhya, Luo, and Gusii	p. 96
The Thagicu Peoples: Kikuyu and Kamba	p. 100
Mainland Tanazania	p. 102
Northwestern Tanazania	p. 103
Southern and Western Tanzania; the Coming of the Ngoni	p. 105
Long Distance Trade in Tanzania	p. 108
West-Central Tanzania: Trade and Political Centralization	p. 109
East Africa and the Wider World in the Nineteenth Century
Oman and the East African Coast	p. 112
Seyyid Said and Zanzibar	p. 114
Economic Impact of Nineteenth Century Trade	p. 116
Growth of External Commerce	p. 118
Anti-Slave Trade Impetus, to European Involvement in East Africa	p. 120
Missionary Impetus to European Involvement in East Africa	p. 122
Christian Missions and Buganda	p. 124
European Adventurers as Precursors of European Involvement in East Africa	p. 126
The Scramble for East Africa
Britain and Zanzibar: ôInformal Empireö	p. 129
Egypt and the Scramble for East Africa	p. 130
Germany Enters East Africa	p. 132
Chartered Companies and the Scramble for Uganda	p. 134
From Chartered Companies to Protectorates	p. 137
The Establishment of European Rule: 1890S To 1914
Conquest and Resistance	p. 142
The Ecological Catastrophe	p. 143
Beginning Administration	p. 144
Economic and Social Considerations	p. 146
Uganda	p. 148
Britian and Buganda	p. 148
Buganda Sub-imperialism	p. 150
The Buganda Agreement of 1900	p. 152
Further Resistance to British Rule	p. 154
Further Expansion of Colonial Rule	p. 155
The Colonial Economy	p. 156
Missions and Western Education	p. 159
Kenya	p. 159
The Uganda Railway	p. 160
The Conquest of Kenya	p. 161
European Settlement and Land	p. 164
The Colonial Economy	p. 165
Missions and Western Education	p. 167
Social and Political Dominance of the European Settlers	p. 168
German East Africa	p. 169
The Conquest of German East Africa	p. 169
The Colonial Economy	p. 171
The Maji Maji Rebellion	p. 173
Reform and Development under Rechenberg	p. 175
Zanzibar	p. 177
East Africa from the First World War to the Second: 1914-1939
Tanganyika	p. 184
The War and German East Africa	p. 184
The Start of British Rule in Tanganyika	p. 186
Sir Donald Cameron and Indirect Rule	p. 187
The Depression and After	p. 190
Improvement and African Politics	p. 191
Uganda	p. 193
Peasant or Plantation Agriculture for Uganda	p. 193
African Discontent and Politics	p. 195
Education	p. 198
Uganda's Asians	p. 199
The Colonial Economy	p. 199
Kenya	p. 200
Kenya Africans and the War	p. 201
Toward European Domination	p. 201
The Asian Question	p. 204
African Political Activism after the War	p. 206
Settler Politics, Closer Union, and the Colonial Office	p. 211
The Colonial Economy	p. 213
African Protest in the 1930s	p. 215
Zanzibar	p. 216
The Rise of Nationalism and Achievement of Independence in East Africa: 1939-1963
World War II and East Africa	p. 225
Tanganyika	p. 227
Development and the Post-war Economy	p. 227
Colonial Policy and African Politics after the War	p. 228
TAVU and the Triumph of Mass Nationalism	p. 231
The Colonial Economy	p. 235
Uganda	p. 236
Popular Discontent in Buganda	p. 236
Sir Andrew Cohen and the ôKabaka Crisisö	p. 238
National Politics and Buganda Separatism	p. 240
Toward Independence 242
The Colonial Economy	p. 245
Kenya	p. 246
The War and the Mitchell Era	p. 246
The Coming of Mau Mau	p. 248
The Emergency	p. 252
Toward African Self-Government	p. 255
The Colonial Economy	p. 259
Zenzibar	p. 260
Evolution of Political Parties	p. 260
Toward Independence	p. 261
Independent East Africa, 1960s To 1990s
Independence and Dependency	p. 265
Attempts to Achieve Closer Cooperation in East Africa	p. 268
Tanzania	p. 271
Establishment of a Republic	p. 271
Tanganyika to Tanzania	p. 272
The One-Party State	p. 273
Socialism and Self-reliance: the Arusha Declaration	p. 274
Building a Socialist Tanzania	p. 275
Retreat from Ujamaa	p. 278
Foreign Affairs	p. 281
Uganda	p. 282
Cooperation and Conflict with Buganda	p. 282
Political Turmoil and the Kabaka's Downfall	p. 284
Uganda's New Republic	p. 285
Obote's fall and the Amin Dictatorship	p. 286
Post-Amin Uganda	p. 288
Foreign Affairs	p. 293
Kenya	p. 295
KANU and the Unitary State	p. 295
Two-party Politics: the KPU	p. 298
Kenya in the 1970s	p. 300
The Moi Presidency	p. 302
End of the Moi Era	p. 306
Foreign Affairs	p. 308
Selected Bibliography	p. 313
Glossary of African Terms	p. 315
Index	p. 317
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