Challenges of History and Leadership in Africa The Essays of Bethwell Allan Ogot Book

	Series Foreword
	Preface: Bethwell Allan Ogot
	Introduction
	Commentary
	Commentary
	Commentary
	Commentary
Pt. 1	The African Past
1	Reintroducing Man into the African World; Traditional Communism and European Socialism in African Politics	1
2	Racial Consciousness Among Africans	13
3	Reflections on an African Experience	25
4	Building on the Indigenous: Reflections on Culture and Development in Africa	35
5	The Role of Arts in a Developing Country	45
6	African Ecology in Historical Perspectives: Problems and Prospects	51
7	Towards a History of Relations Between African Systems	59
Pt. 2	East Africa: Past and Present
8	The Great Lakes Region	65
9	Revolt of the Elders: An Anatomy of the Loyalist Crowd in the Mau Mau Uprising 1952-1956	97
10	Politics, Culture and Music in Central Kenya: A study of Mau Mau Hymns, 1951-1956	113
11	Mau Mau and the Fourth Estate 1952-1956	129
12	The Construction of a National Culture	155
13	Informal Cultural Education in the Kenya We Want	183
Pt. 3	The Luo World: Historically Determined
14	The Concept of Jok	193
15	Kingship and Statelessness Among the Nilotes	205
16	The Construction of Luo Identity and History	223
17	On the Making of a Sanctuary	251
18	British Administration in Central Nyanza District of Kenya, 1900-1960	269
19	Reverend Alfayo Odongo Mango 1870-1934	301
20	A Community of Their Own	325
21	The Siege of Ramogi: From National Coalitions to Ethnic coalitions, 1960-1998	341
Pt. 4	African Leadership and Politics
22	From Chief to President	355
23	Men of the People and the Second Independence in Africa	367
24	Museveni: The Ugandan Narcissus	373
25	African Conflicts in a Global Context: A Research Agenda	385
26	The Struggle for the Third World: A Historical Perspective	405
27	The Future of the Past in Africa: Reflections on the Post Cold War Era	419
Pt. 5	The Historical Method
28	The Limitations of Textual History	435
29	The Dilemmas of Research in Early African History	449
30	The Concept of the Outsider in African History	461
31	Africa: The Agenda of Historical Research and Writings	467
32	Historians and East Africa	485
33	Three Decades of Historical Studies in East Africa, 1949-1977	493
34	History, Anthropology and Social Change: The Kenyan Case	511
Pt. 6	Ideology and African Scholarship
35	Nkrumah Revisits Marx	525
36	A Man More Sinned Against than Sinning: the African Writer's View of Himself	531
37	National Identity and Nationalism: Concepts and Ideologies	541
38	Intellectual Smugglers in Africa	553
39	Social Sciences in the 21st century: From Rhetoric to Reality	559
40	History, Ideology and Contemporary Kenya	573
41	After the End of History	583
Pt. 7	African Universities
42	The Role of a University in the Development of National Unity and Consciousness	593
43	University Co-operation: The East African Experience	599
44	The Role of the University in Development	613
45	Lessons of Experience: Higher Education Policy of the World Bank in Africa	623
46	University Development in Kenya - What Options?	651
App	Hudson Liyai: A Bio-Bibliography of B.A. Ogot	659
	Index	677