New Dr: Zeinabu Khalif
Josie TeurlingsThesis: Pastoral transformation: Shifta-war, Livelihood, and Gender Perspectives among the Waso Borana in Northern Kenya.
Zeinabu Khalif
Photo: Evy Jørgensen
The thesis discusses socio-economic transformation of the Waso Borana pastoralists of northern Kenya in the aftermath of the secessionist war, also known as the shifta war in the 1960s.
The impetus for the war was the marginalization suffered by the people of northern Kenya as a result of the colonial policy that separated the pastoral people of northern Kenya from the rest of the country. The isolation and marginalization led to agitation for secession from Kenya to become part of the Greater Somalia. The Kenya government's response to the secession was detrimental for people and their pastoral economy.
In the attempt to suppress the rebellion, the government indiscriminately bombed villages and livestock.
Furthermore, they forcefully settled the pastoralists in sedentary villages and restricted the areas used for livestock grazing. Due to restricted livestock movement, many died as a result of diseases and starvation. This study aimed at understanding the long term impact of this conflict in terms of people's livelihood as well as social organization. In particular, it focuses on the changes at the household level. In this regard, the thesis analyses the effect of conflict on gender roles.
Supervisors:
Prof. Gufu Oba, Noragric, UMB
Prof. Gudrun Dahl, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
Evaluation committee:
Prof. Aud Talle, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Prof. Peter Little, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Dr. Ingrid Nyborg, Noragric, UMB
The title of her trial lecture was Conflict in Africa: Consequences for social change and development.
For more information contact Zeinabu Khalif (zeinabu.khalif (@)umb no
Updated: 10.12.10
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Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway
Visiting/delivery address:
Universitetstunet 1 (Tivoli)
NO-1432 Ås