{"product_id":"decolonizing-maasai-history-a-path-to-indigenous-african-futures-9781350427433","title":"Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/b\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheebook 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeitamei Olol Dapash\u003c\/b\u003e is a nationally recognized leader of the Indigenous Maasai community in Kenya, as well as Director of the Institute for Maasai Education, Research \u0026amp; Conservation, Talek, Kenya. He is also the co-founder, with Mary Poole, of the Dopoi Center for community organizing and education, near Talek, Kenya. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Poole\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of East Africa and Chair of Social Justice Studies, Prescott College, USA. She has collaborated for twenty years with Meitamei Dapash to reconstruct Maasai history and support Maasai land-rights activism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183023489298,"sku":"9781350427433","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d784501c-1ad4-44ca-9be7-c68077baea41.jpg?v=1744452532","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/decolonizing-maasai-history-a-path-to-indigenous-african-futures-9781350427433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}