MacArthur, Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Cartography and the Political Imagination
Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Julie MacArthur
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS, OHIO
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
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Cover art: (background) C. W. Hobley, map of Kavirondo, 1898. Hobley, “Kavirondo”; (upper right corner) sketch map of Jeremiah Nabifwo’s property. 19 January 1959, KPA, WD/4/5; (lower left corner) sketch map of M. Mbango s/o Linyonyi’s property. 16 June 1956, KNA, PC/NZA/3/15/68.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: MacArthur, Julie, 1982– author.
Title: Cartography and the political imagination : mapping community in colonial Kenya / Julie MacArthur.
Other titles: New African histories series.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016005708| ISBN 9780821422090 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422106 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445563 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Luyia (African people)—Kenya—History. | Ethnicity—Political aspects—Kenya. | Cartography—Political aspects—Kenya. | Cartography—Social aspects—Kenya. | Kenya—Ethnic relations—History.
Classification: LCC DT433.545.L88 M33 2016 | DDC 305.896395—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016005708
Contents
Introduction. Mapping Political Communities in Africa
Chapter 1. The Geographies of Western Kenya
Chapter 2. Land, Gold, and Commissioning the “Tribe”
Chapter 3. Ethnic Patriotism in the Interwar Years
Chapter 4. Speaking Luyia: Linguistic Work and Political Imagination
Chapter 5. Mapping Gender: Moral Crisis and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Pluralism in the 1940s
Chapter 6. Between Loyalism and Dissent: Ethnic Geographies in the Era of Mau Mau
Chapter 7. Mapping Decolonization
Afterword. Beyond the Ethnos and the Nation
Illustrations
Figure I.1. Sketch map of Jeremiah Nabifwo’s property
Figure I.2. Sketch map of M. Mbango s/o Linyonyi’s property
Figure 1.1. Topographical map of Kenya
Figure 1.2. Southern view from Mount Elgon
Figure 1.3. Photos of North Kavirondo by Günter Wagner
Figure 1.4. Migrational map by Günter Wagner, 1949
Figure 1.5. Migrational map by Gideon Were, 1967
Figure 1.6. Mombasa postcard, postmarked 1899
Figure 1.7. IBEAC map of East Africa, 1891–92, by E. G. Ravenstein
Figure 1.8. C. W. Hobley map of Kavirondo, 1898
Figure 1.9. Map of the Uganda Protectorate, 1902
Figure 1.10. Map of road making and surveying in British East Africa
