Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
25.07.2026
Verlag
ShangalaSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
445 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798233561054
They had done nothing to deserve it. It did not matter.
In 1915, as the First World War reached deep into East Africa, the people of Kasighau a small mountain rising from the plains of Taita Taveta woke to find their world collapsing. German forces had occupied their hills. In response, the British colonial authorities accused the entire community of collaborating with the enemy and ordered them removed. Men, women, and children were uprooted from land their ancestors had held for generations and deported into exile hundreds of kilometres away.
They would not return for nearly four years. By the time they did, almost half of them were gone lost to disease, hardship, and scattering and even then, colonial law still stood between the survivors and their home.
Kasighau in History tells the story the record almost lost. Veteran Kenyan journalist Dishon Shangala spent years gathering the testimony of the elders who remembered, cross-checking their accounts against colonial dispatches and missionary archives, to reconstruct one of the least-told episodes of Britain's empire at war. The result is both a work of history and an act of remembrance: an account of accusation and endurance, of a community broken apart and determined to come home.
But this is more than a chronicle of injustice. Shangala also recovers the world the Wa-Kasighau were nearly severed from their clans and leadership, their ceremonies, crafts, trade, and beliefs, and their place in the wider story of the Taita hills, from the first European sighting of Mount Kilimanjaro to the community that lives on the mountain today.
Written by a respected reporter and completed by his family after his death, Kasighau in History restores to the page a heritage that had almost passed out of living memory and gives the Wa-Kasighau back their place in it.
A story of empire, endurance, and belonging for readers of African history, colonial history, and the untold human stories of the First World War
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