Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya, 1890s-1963

Series in Ecology and History

by David Anderson

Colonial Baringo was in many respects an unexceptional place, a backwater in the semi-arid Rift Valley of Kenya, lacking in cash crops and distant from larger markets. But in the middle years of colonial rule Baringo's anonymity gave way to notoriety. Prolonged drought and localized famine in the district from the mid-1920s led to claims that Baringo was a land of dramatic decay, brought on by overcrowding and livestock mismanagement.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 2002

About the author

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David Anderson is Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. His research interests have remained focused upon eastern and central Africa, but his published work has ranged across a wide variety of topics, from histories of environmental change to current analysis of political violence. David Anderson is co-editor of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

see also David M. Anderson