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... Sloan Mahone, “Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya”: This chapter considers Taita, in Kenya’s Coast Province (now Taita-Taveta county), as a case study, presenting a unique snapshot of a more complicated colonial encounter. For a brief period in the 1950s...

... This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of local housemaid fans of Nollywood televisual cinema in Eldoret, Kenya. It explores the social conditions that produce and at the same time marginalize the typical female domestic worker. It examines the serendipitously constructed identity...

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... Chapter 5 moves the geographic to consider how ideas about Kenya as a prelapsarian space traveled to the metropole and beyond. It focuses on the romance novels of Nora Strange, arguing that they presented readers with an image of Kenya as a “eugenic landscape,” a space that separated fit...

... Chapter 5 continues to explore questions related to exhibition genres and design, relocating them to the African continent to see how design-based genres are adapted and redefined while traveling in different postcolonial settings. Considering exhibitions in South Africa and Kenya, the chapter...

... This Chapter introduces readers to Kenya and the three infrastructures whose histories I unfold over the course of the book, explaining why a focus on infrastructures gives us unique purchase on state-capital dynamics over the course of the long twentieth century. I argue that corporate-state...