Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya 9780821445563, 9780821422106, 2016005708, 9780821422090, 0821445561

After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name — “Luyia” — appeared on the offic

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Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
9780821445563, 9780821422106, 2016005708, 9780821422090, 0821445561

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