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Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives-cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people.
Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Economics --- Prevention. --- Finance. --- Economic conditions. --- Sociological aspects.
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This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for a land that they could call their own. Highly entertaining, the stories cross over from pre-colonial to post-colonial eras, with tales of fooling the colonial officers, winning battles and producing miracles. Although warriors and chiefs play a critical part in the stories so too do unlikely actors such as women, prophets, a
Bantu-speaking peoples -- Migrations. --- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Migrations. --- North Mara District (Tanzania) -- History -- Interviews. --- Oral history -- North Mara District (Tanzania) -- Translations into Swahili. --- Oral history -- North Mara District (Tanzania). --- Oral history --- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Migrations --- Migration, Internal --- History. --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Bantus --- Migrations. --- North Mara District (Tanzania) --- History --- Dho Luo (African people) --- Jo Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Kavirondo (Nilotic people) --- Luo (African people) --- Luo (Nilotic tribe) --- Ethnology --- Lwoo (African people) --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Mfecane --- Methodology --- North Mara, Tanzania --- Tarime District (Tanzania) --- Population geography --- Internal migrants
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