... feature festivals honoring divinities or cultural heroes. Festivals renew the bonds between ancestors and their progeny, emphasize cyclical time, and keep track of the community's legacy and orientation by carrying forward its predecessors' memories. rites of passage rituals male initiation Nandi...

...This chapter analyzes political violence in Kenya from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s. In a study of the “pacification campaigns” conducted by the Imperial British East Africa Company against the Kikuyu and Nandi communities at the turn of the twentieth century, the chapter describes...

...This chapter examines the history of the empire of British Kenya. It explains that the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was under British rule during the period from 1920 to 1963. It discusses the Nandi people's war of attrition against the encroaching British Empire and the shooting of Nandi...