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UoN Towers, 4th Floor Room MLT04
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“Markets of War in Mount Elgon: Who were the Racketeers?”
On site
UoN Towers, 4th Floor Room MLT04
Online:
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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.
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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