Major sources and references for research on the Taita people and Taita-Taveta County.
Academic Works
Ambler, Charles. "Kenyan Communities in the Long Twentieth Century". Historical Association of Kenya archives, 2010. https://www.nairobi.go.ke/
Bender, David L. "Changing Kinship Patterns in Colonial East Africa". Journal of African History, 1994. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
Ehret, Christopher. "The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800". University of Virginia Press, 2002. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/
Gill, Patrick. "Mountains of the Moon: The Taita Hills of Kenya". Journal of East African Studies, 2015. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjea20
Lamphear, John. "The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to European Colonization". Oxford University Press, 1992. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/
Mosley, Paul. "The Settler Economies of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1963". Oxford University Press, 1983. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/
Newmark, William D. "Tropical forest fragmentation and the local extinction of understory birds in eastern Tanzania". Conservation Biology, 1991. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
Nurse, Derek and Philippson, Gérard. "The Bantu Languages". Routledge, 2003. https://www.routledge.com/
Patterson, John H. "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo". Macmillan, 1907. https://archive.org/details/the-man-eaters-of-tsavo
Riggins, Stephen. "East African Highlands: Ecology and Human Use". University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. https://www.upenn.edu/
Spear, Thomas. "Mountain Farmers: Agro-pastoralists in the East African Highlands". University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. https://www.wisc.edu/
Government and Official Sources
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. "County Statistical Abstracts 2019". Government of Kenya, 2019. https://www.knbs.or.ke/
Kenya Wildlife Service. "Tsavo East and West National Parks Management Plan 2014-2024". Government of Kenya, 2014. https://www.kws.go.ke/
Taita-Taveta County Government. "County Integrated Development Plan 2022-2027". https://taitataveta.go.ke/
Thematic Resources
Finnegan, Ruth. "Oral Literature in Africa". Oxford University Press, 1970. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/
Hinnebusch, Thomas. "The Swahili Peoples: An African Odyssey". University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, 2002. https://www.penn.museum/
Nicholson, Sharon. "The East African Rains: A Natural History and Implications for Climate Change". Oxford University Press, 2016. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/
Wanyande, Peter. "Ethnic Politics and Governance in Contemporary Kenya". Institute of Policy Analysis and Research, 2010. https://www.ipar.or.ke/
See Also
Sources
- Spear, Thomas. "Mountain Farmers: Agro-pastoralists in the East African Highlands". University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. https://www.wisc.edu/
- Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. "County Statistical Abstracts 2019". Government of Kenya, 2019. https://www.knbs.or.ke/
- Taita-Taveta County Government. "County Integrated Development Plan 2022-2027". https://taitataveta.go.ke/