Cartography and the Political Imagination. Julie MacArthur

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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

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

       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

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      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

       Figure 1.11. Map of the East Africa Protectorate, 1902

       Figure 2.1. Map of population densities in North Kavirondo, 1930

       Figure 2.2. Gold rush cartoon, 1933

       Figure 4.1. Map of locations in North Kavirondo

       Figure 4.2. Map of dialects in North Kavirondo

       Figure 5.1. Kenya population census, 1948

       Figure 6.1. New district boundaries, Elgon and North Nyanza, 1958

       Figure 7.1. Map of Tachoni locations by the Tachoni Welfare Association Fund, 1962

       Figure 7.2. Map by the Abaluhia Leaders’ Conference, 1962

       Figure 7.3. Map by the Maragoli Association, 1962

       Figure 7.4. Map by the Luyia branch of KADU, 1962

       Figure 7.5. Map by the North Nyanza branch of KANU, 1962

       Figure 7.6. Map of “Greater Luyia”

       Figure 7.7. Map of administrative boundaries, 1961

       Figure 7.8. Map of new regions of Kenya, 1962

       Figure A.1. Cover of Idi Amin’s book, The Shaping of Modern Uganda, 1976

       Table 4.1. Linguistic Breakdown in North Kavirondo

      Acknowledgments

      This book is the product of the support and guidance of many individuals and institutions. I have amassed a number of intellectual and personal debts during


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