Changes in Indigenous Ecological Knowledge of the Isukha and the Idakho Peoples of Western Kenya, c. 1850-1963

This book examines the emergence of the Abisukha and Abidakho and their sociopolitical and economic set up before and after colonialism. The precolonial period reveals that there was a a balance between human activities and the ecological system . However this changed drastically leading to famine. The work is examined within two paradigms: The environmental-demographic determinism and the articulation of modes of production.