A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, African Land Rights in Kenya, and The Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930-1952

Name: A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, African Land Rights in Kenya, and The Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930-1952
Author: Priscilla M. Shilaro
ISBN: 9780761836063

Author Priscilla M. Shilaro

Publisher University Press of America

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Author(s)Priscilla M. Shilaro

PublisherUniversity Press of America

ISBN / ASIN0761836063

ISBN-139780761836063

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Sales Rank2,853,794

MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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This work explores Britain's attempt to take land from the Bantu-Luyia peoples of Western Kenya for gold mining following the discovery of gold in the North Kavirondo (N.K. reserve in 1931.