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| Title: | 'Kibra is Our Blood': The Sudanese Military Legacy in Nairobi's Kibera Location, 1902-1968 |
| Author: | Parsons, Timothy |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 87-122 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | ethnicity informal settlements Military, Defense and Arms History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Urbanization and Migration |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/221547 |
| Abstract: | While the current population of Nairobi's southwestern suburb of Kibera is ethnically heterogeneous, the location is still recognized as the social and political centre of Kenya's Sudanese or Nubi community. Kenya's Sudanese are part of a larger community stretching throughout East Africa that was shaped by the institutions of slavery and military service. Kibera continues to exist today because the military identity and traditions of the Sudanese made them much more difficult to deal with than any other ethnic group in colonial Kenya. When British rule in Kenya drew to a close in 1963, the ground shifted under the Sudanese, and they were forced to recast themselves as Kenyan nationalists. They moved from 'Sudanese' aliens deserving of non-native status to a 'tribe' of 'Nubian' Kenyans with the same claims and rights as any other indigenous ethnic group. This article deals with the establishment of Kibera (1904-1928), Kibera under civil administration (1928-1939), the struggle for Kibera (1939-1949), Kibera in transition (1950-1959), and Kibera and independence (1960-1968). Notes, ref. |
