Saitabau Lulunken and I reviewed Meitamei Olol Dapash and Mary Poole’s Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures (Zed Books, 2025). The review was recently published in the Journal of African History.
“In his 1970 article ‘Historians and East Africa,’ Kenyan historian Bethwell Ogot observed that early East African historiography was predominantly shaped by amateur historians whose contributions produced, to put it charitably, decidedly mixed results. This tradition of lay historical writing persists in East Africa today, as exemplified by Decolonizing Maasai History. …”
Read the full review here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853726100802.
