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Author Berman, Nina (Nina Auguste), author.

Title Germans on the Kenyan coast : land, charity, and romance / Nina Berman
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]

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Contents Multitudinal coastal entanglements : Pwani si Kenya-pwani ni Kenya-pwani ni Ujerumani (na Italia na kadhalika) -- Land -- Charity -- Romance -- Epilogue: Je, vitaturudia? Will they return to us?
Summary Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani's schools and water resources are supplied by funds from immigrants, and what the impact of mixed marriages is on notions of kinship and belonging as well as the economy. This unique story about a small Kenyan town also recounts a wider tale of opportunity, oppression, resilience, exploitation, domination, and accommodation in a world of economic, political, and social change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Germans -- Kenya -- Diani
Real property -- Kenya -- Foreign ownership
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
HISTORY / Africa / East
Ethnic relations
Germans
Real property -- Foreign ownership
Social conditions
SUBJECT Diani (Kenya) -- Ethnic relations
Diani (Kenya) -- Social conditions
Subject Kenya
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016039935
ISBN 9780253024374
0253024374