Decolonizing Maasai History

<p><b>In this open access book Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. </b>Through their rich and detailed narrative we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it but also about the relations between politics and Western history; about the untold history of Kenya both pre- and post-nationhood; about why the creation of nation-states is not synonymous with liberation; and about how and why Indigenous approaches to land obstruct global processes of resource extraction. All of this finds wider resonances that upend received narratives of post-independence Africa and offer new opportunities for the emancipation of Indigenous communities from neo-colonial regimes the world over.<br><i>Theebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.</i></p>