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...Robert O. Collins This essay seeks to place the events in Turkan during the first decades of the twentieth century into a wider perspective. Despite their modest numbers and the wasteland they inhabited, the challenge to the Turkana did not come from their neighbors, whom they could raid...

...Michael N. I. Lokuruka; Pauline A. Lokuruka The original wave of Turkana immigrants from southwestern Sudan coalesced over time—through intermarriage with earlier inhabitants of Turkan (Turkana country) and with other nomadic pastoralists in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Sudan—to grow into Ngturkana...

... of more fertile parts of East Africa. It is a harsh country, built on a grand scale, of plains and mountain masses, and split by the escarpment of the Rift Valley. The bulk of the region consists of Karamoja (now in Uganda) and Turkan (in Kenya), with a smaller section—part of the Ilemi Triangle...

... is influenced by the work of Terrence Ranger on the nature of African resistance to European conquest, which had no historical basis for the Turkana people, since ‘‘the territorial expansion of Turkan appears to have been satisfied in the 1890s According to Collins, ‘‘Turkana ‘militarism’ was designed...