RE-EVALUATING ARCHAEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE, THE MINIMALIST STATE, AND REGENERATION OF SOCIETY IN KENYA - DAVID MASIKA

Feb
23
February 23, 2:30 pm
Where

On site

UoN Towers, 4th Floor Room MLT04

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“Markets of War in Mount Elgon: Who were the Racketeers?”

Where

On site

UoN Towers, 4th Floor Room MLT04

Online:

Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeyopzgiG9R3gZZwa75XjZpwv_Oq7SSK

David Neville Masika is a Tutorial Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi.  He is a PhD candidate in the same university. His research interest is on The Political Economy of Wars. His other area of interest is global issues that affect world peace.

POSTER

In this presentation, Mr. Masika argues that in the shadows of war, there are econo-political networks that make massive profit. He demonstrates how profiteers, smugglers, and black-market merchants were linked into a web of war profit in Mount Elgon