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- Threads of Ivory, Iron, and Identity: The Long-Distance Trade Networks of Interior Kenya
For centuries before the colonial period, the peoples of what is now Kenya were not isolated. They were integral parts of a vast, dynamic economic web that stretched from their inland homesteads to the stone cities of the … Read more - Lords of the Plains: The Maasai at Their Peak
The Maasai at Their Peak — kenyanhistory.com kenyanhistory.com 19th Century Kenya · Pre-colonial Warfare For two centuries, the Maasai ruled the Rift Valley by fear alone. Every caravan detoured around them. Every neighbouring people built their villages on … Read more - The First Peoples of the North: Kenya’s Cushitic Inheritance and Its Long Erasure
The Cushitic Peoples of Northern Kenya — kenyanhistory.com kenyanhistory.com Pre-colonial History · Northern Kenya Before the Kikuyu, before the Luo, before the British redrew the map — the Cushitic peoples shaped the languages, customs, and very bones of … Read more - A History of the Luo People of Kenya
The Luo — known to themselves as the Joluo or Jaluo, meaning “people of Luo” — are the second largest ethnic group in Kenya and one of the most significant in the history of East Africa. Numbering over … Read more - A History of the Kikuyu People
Kenya’s Largest Ethnic Group, from Origins to Independence The Kikuyu — also written Gikuyu, and known to themselves as the Agikuyu — are the largest ethnic group in Kenya, accounting for roughly seventeen percent of the country’s population. … Read more - Who Really Paid for Colonial Kenya?
Revenue, race, and the great tax paradox — how African hut taxes bankrolled European settler privilege from the 1940s to independence. By the KenyanHistory.com Between the 1940s and independence in 1963, Kenya’s colonial government collected millions of pounds in … Read more
