Major Tharaka Oral Traditions and references for research on the Tharaka people and Tharaka-Nithi 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 Tharaka Timeline, 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/
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/
Nicholson, Sharon. "The East African Rains: A Natural History and Implications for Climate Change". Oxford University Press, 2016. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/
Nurse, Derek and Philippson, Gérard. "The Bantu Languages". Routledge, 2003. https://www.routledge.com/
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. "Meru National Park and Associated Reserves Management Plan 2014-2024". Government of Kenya, 2014. https://www.kws.go.ke/
Tharaka-Nithi County Government. "County Integrated Development Plan 2022-2027". https://tharaka-nithi.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/
Okpewho, Isidore. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity". Indiana University Press, 1992. https://www.indiana.edu/
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/
- Tharaka-Nithi County Government. "County Integrated Development Plan 2022-2027". https://tharaka-nithi.go.ke/