ARCHAEOLOGY AND INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE IN POKOT

Thursday, 8 September 2011 from 11.00am -12.00pm       

Where: The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) Museum Hill Road, Nairobi (Palaeontology Section Room A4)

          Speaker: Dr. Matt Davies, Fellow at the BIEA & McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge

Synopsis: Dr Matthew Davies, will talk about his archaeological and ethnohistorical research into intensive farming in the Pokot region of North West Kenya. To date his work has established a changing pattern of landuse and settlement spanning the last 500 years and involving a shift from lithic using rockshelter inhabitants with only domestic sheep goat to more specialised forms of food production including the establishment of specialised cattle pastoralism and intensive irrigation agriculture. Particular attention will be paid to the development of an extensive network of pre-colonial irrigation channels and the implications of this research to Kalenjin history.

If you wish to attend, please register with marymuungu@gmail.com

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American Political Science Association’s 2011 Africa Workshop
“Representation Reconsidered”

The American Political Science Association’s 2011 Africa Workshop will be led by Todd Eisenstadt and Carl LeVan, both of American University in Washington, DC, along with Josephine Ahikire from Makerere University in Uganda, and Karuti Kanyinga from the University of Nairobi. 

The Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi will host the workshop from July 23 – August 6.  The workshop is the fourth in a multi-year effort supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to encourage collaboration between political scientists in the United States and Africa.

Click here to download the background document.

More information about the APSA workshops is available at: http://www.apsanet.org/~africaworkshops/

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