Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya - Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c.1800 to the Present

Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews, Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering, 'loyalty', martial race, and indeed the nature of empire itself.