Mombasa Island: A Maritime Perspective

McConkey, Rosemary; McErlean, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s10761-007-0025-7

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“…But Kenya's emergence on the global heroin trafficking map is the result of a complex confluence of factors including its geographic position (McConkey and McErlean 2007); its role in colonial-era (illicit) trade; and the transcontinental movements of a number of maritime 'stowaways' from the 1970s onwards, which McCurdy and Kaduri also discuss in their briefing in this issue. Critically, the role of global counter-narcotics policing in encouraging the emergence of new drug-trafficking patterns is rarely mentioned, as is the importance of economic migration patterns from East Africa to southern Asia, southern Europe and Latin America.…”

Section: Contextualising the Kenyan Heroin Tradementioning

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‘The first dragon to slay’: unpacking Kenya’s war on drugs

Dimova

2016

Review of African Political Economy

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Kenya faces the challenge of policing not only drug smuggling through its territory, but a sprawling local market dominated by heroin. The government is enthusiastically embracing the global ‘war on drugs’ discourse, propped by external actors’ assistance and insistence. Guided by these developments, this article analyses Kenya’s local war on drugs using ethnographic material from immersive fieldwork in Nairobi and Mombasa. The aim is to decode local political actors’ engagement in the international drug control regime and its impact on everyday perceptions of Kenyan state authority. As such, this article provides an alternative explanation of the mechanics of Kenyan drug markets and the role some government officials play in (controlling) them.

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Section: Contextualising the Kenyan Heroin Tradementioning

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‘The first dragon to slay’: unpacking Kenya’s war on drugs

Dimova

2016

Review of African Political Economy

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“…Although not suggested by the title, this volume positions itself as part of a school of maritime archaeology originating at the University of Ulster (McConkey andMcErlean 2007, Pollard 2008). This school is small, but its contributions to coastal archaeology in East Africa are very welcome, as there are very few Swahili archaeologists with the specific skills to explore maritime environments.…”

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Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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“…Only four out of ten guides knew where Fort Joseph is located, but only one said he had taken tourists there. No one could add any information about this structure (see McConkey and McErlean 2007). As discussed below, only some of the guides have a depth of information that enables them to subtly adapt their guided tours to the average intellectual level of a group (see Salazar 2005).…”

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Fort Jesus: Guiding the Past and Contesting the Present in Kenya

Sarmento

2010

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This paper focuses on the interpretation of Fort Jesus, Kenya, a late sixteenth century Portuguese-built fort, and attempts to discuss its significance in the region and in the country, and its role within the context of recent tourism development in Kenya. By exploring the ways in which a sample of local tourist guides engage with tourists and with the heritage and memory that Fort Jesus represents in this coastal region, some of the challenges facing tourism development in post-colonial Kenya are analysed. While the study reveals that the guides are not a homogeneous group, one of the shared positions is their resentfulness towards the inability of the coastal region to control and benefit from tourism. At the same time, despite some of the guides revealing to be skilful cultural mediators, the vast majority construct their mediation upon a predominantly colonial knowledge of the Fort. Résumé: Fort Jésus: interprétation du passé et contestation du présent au KenyaCet article se concentre sur l'interprétation de Fort Jésus, au Kenya, un fort construit par les portugais au seizième siècle, pour discuter de sa signification dans la région et dans le pays, ainsi que de son rôle dans le contexte du développement récent du tourisme au Kenya. En explorant la façon dont unéchantillon de guides touristiques locaux se conduit vis-à-vis des touristes et par rapport au patrimoine et la mémoire que Fort Jésus représente pour cette zone côtière, j'analyse les problèmes auxquels le développement du tourisme dans un Kenya post colonial doit faire face. Bien que l'étude révèle que les guides ne sont pas un groupe homogène, l'incapacité de la région côtière de contrôler et de bénéficier du tourisme les contrarie tous. En même temps, bien que les guides se soient révélés des interprètes culturels habiles, la majorité construit ses interprétations d'après une connaissance du fort essentiellement coloniale. Diese Studie konzentriert sich auf die Interpretation von Fort Jesus in Kenia, einem portugiesischen Fort aus dem späten sechzehnten Jahrhundert, und strebt an, seine Bedeutung für die Region und das Land sowie seine Rolle im Zusammenhang mit den jüngsten Tourismusentwicklungen in Kenia zu diskutieren. Indem die Art und Weise untersucht wird, mit der eine Auswahl von lokalen Reiseführern sich mit Touristen sowie mit dem Kulturerbe und den Erinnerungen, welches Fort Jesus für diese Küstenregion darstellt, auseinandersetzt, analysiere ich einige der Herausforderungen, die der Tourismusentwicklung im postkolonialen Kenia gegenüberstehen. Während die Untersuchung zeigt, dass Reiseführer keine einheitliche Gruppe darstellen, so ist doch eine der gemeinsamen Positionen ihr Aufgebrachtseinüber die Unfähigkeit der Küstenregion den Tourismus zu kontrollieren und von ihm zu profitieren. Zur gleichen Zeit, und obwohl einige der Reiseführer sich als gekonnte Kulturvermittler hervortun, basiert die Wissensvermittlung für dieüberwiegende Mehrheit hauptsächlich auf kolonialem Wissenüber das Fort.

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Mombasa Island: A Maritime Perspective

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‘The first dragon to slay’: unpacking Kenya’s war on drugs

‘The first dragon to slay’: unpacking Kenya’s war on drugs

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