Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Numbered in sequence of publication
Book
35) 1992 (with Bruce Berman) Unhappy Valley: conflict in Kenya and Africa
(James Currey, London). Book I is republished articles; Book II
contains my own `Moral Economy of Mau Mau', pp. 265-504.
Edited Books
10) 1975 Three Aspects of Crisis in Colonial Kenya (Eastern Africa Series 21:
Syracuse University, New York), xxiii + 91 pp. With Introduction,
'On the periodisation of Kenya's colonial history' pp. v-xxiii
25) 1987 (a) South Africa in Question, (Currey, London; Heinemann, Portsmouth
NH), x + 244 pp. (My Introduction, pp. 1-12).
63) 2003 (a) (with Atieno Odhiambo) Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority
& Narration (James Currey, Oxford; EAEP, Nairobi; Ohio UP, Athens
OH), xvi + 307pp. With Introduction.
77) 2009 (b) Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria, (with Wangari Muoria-Sal, Bodil Folke Frederiksen & Derek Peterson (Brill: Leiden) pp. xi + 409.
83) 2011 (b) (with Edward Stourton) Trinity, a Portrait (Third Millennium International, London) pp. 1 + 261.
85) 2012 (b) (with Hiroyuki Hino, Gustav Ranis & Frances Stewart) Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa (Cambridge University Press), xvii + 335.
91) 2014 (in press): Foreword and editorial notes for S. H. Fazan, Colonial Kenya: British rule, Mau Mau and the winds of change (London: I. B. Tauris).
Articles and Chapters
1) 1968 (a) 'Some origins of nationalism in East Africa', Jl.African History 9:
119-46.
2) (b) 'The emergence of African nations', African Affairs 266: 11-28
3) (c) 'The Tanzanian Experiment', African Affairs 269: 330-44
4) (d) 'European attitudes and African pressures: Missions & government in
Kenya between the wars', Race 10: 141-51
5) 1969 'Local origins of nationalist politics in western Kenya', in Autonomy &
Dependence in Parochial Politics (London, Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, Collected Seminar Papers No.7), 76-91.
6) 1970 'Political associations in western Kenya', in Protest and Power in Black
Africa, eds R Rotberg & A Mazrui (OUP, New York), 589-638.
7) 1971 (a) 'Rural resistance & mass political mobilisation among the Luo of
western Kenya', in Mouvements nationaux d'Independance et Classes
populaires, ed R Bureau (Paris: Commission internationale d'histoire
des mouvements sociaux & des structures sociales), 459-78.
8) (b) 'Policies for rural employment', in Prospects for employment opportunities
in the 1970s eds R E Robinson & P Johnston (HMSO), 150-56.
9) (c) 'Recent histories' of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, pp. 413-15, 818-21, 857-
59 in Africa South of the Sahara (Europa Publications, London).
11) (b) (with M G Whisson) 'The case of Jason Gor & Fourteen Others: a Luo
succession dispute in historical perspective', Africa 14: 50-66.
12) 1976 (with D A Low) 'Towards the new order 1945-1963', in History of East
Africa iii, eds D A Low & A Smith (Clarendon Press, Oxford), 1-64.
13) 1977 (a) 'When did the Gusii (or any other group) become a tribe?'
Kenya Historical Review 5: 123-33.
14) (b) 'The politics of conquest: the British in western Kenya 1895-1908',
Historical Journal 20: 841-70.
15) 1978 (with S Booth-Clibborn & A Hake) 'The emerging pattern of church
and state co-operation in Kenya', in Christianity in Independent Africa
eds. E Fashole-Luke et al (Rex Collings, London), 267-84.
16) 1979 (with B J Berman) 'Coping with contradictions: the development of the
colonial state in Kenya 1895-1914', Jl. African Hist 20: 487-505.
17) 1981 (a) 'State and peasantry in colonial Africa', in People's History &
Socialist Theory, ed Raphael Samuel (Routledge, London), 106-17.
18) (b) 'States & social processes in Africa: An historiographical survey',
African Studies Review 24: 139-225.
19) 1983 'From colony to industrial state: South African historiography seen
from England', Social Dynamics (Cape Town) 9: 67-83.
20) 1985 'The European scramble & conquest in African history', ch 12 in
Cambridge History of Africa, 6: 1870-1905, eds R Oliver & G N
Sanderson (Cambridge UP), 680-766.
21) 1986 (a) 'The depression & the second world war in the transformation of
Kenya', in Africa & the Second World War, eds D Killingray &
R Rathbone (Macmillan, London), 97-142.
22) (b) 'Political accountability in African history', in Political domination in
Africa ed P Chabal (Cambridge UP), 126-57.
23) (c) 'Explanations of the Mau Mau revolt’, in Resistance & Ideology in Settler
Societies, ed T Lodge (Ravan, Johannesburg), 168-78.
24) (d) 'Mau Mau through the looking-glass' Index on Censorship 15: 19-22.
26) 1987 (b) 'Conservation and development', in Conservation in Africa,
eds D M Anderson & R Grove (Cambridge UP), 271-5.
27) (c) 'La pensée politique des Kikuyu et les ideologies du Mau-mau',
Cahiers d'études africaines 27: 329-357.
28) 1989 (a) 'The conquest state of Kenya', in J de Moor & H Wesseling (eds)
Colonial Warfare (Brill, Leiden), 87-120.
29) (b) 'African pasts in Africa's future', in C. Fyfe (ed) African Futures
(Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University), 31-70.
30) (c) 'State and markets in colonial Kenya: Two studies in ambiguity',
in E. Linnebuhr (ed) Transition & Continuity in East Africa and
beyond (African Studies Series, University of Bayreuth), 303-20.
31) (d) 'The empire on the Nile', and 'The scramble for Africa', in C.A. Bayly
(ed), Atlas of the British Empire (Toucan Books, London), 137-46.
32) 1990 (a)`Mau Maus of the Mind: making Mau Mau and remaking Kenya',
Jl. African Hist 31, 393-421.
33) (b) Foreword', pp. xi-xvi, to Marshall Clough, Fighting Two Sides: Kenyan
chiefs and politicians 1918-1940 (University Press of Colorado).
34) 1991 (with B Berman), `Louis Leakey's Mau Mau: a study in the politics of
knowledge', History and Anthropology 5: 143-204.
36) (b) 'The political culture of Kenya', in Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh,
Occasional Papers No. 37 , 1-19.
37) 1993 'Staatsgewalt und moralische ordnung: Die erfindung des tribalismus
in Afrika', Der Uberblick: Zeitschrift fur okumenische Begegnung &
internationale Zuzammenarbeit 3/93 (Hamburg), 5-10.
38) 1994 'Moral ethnicity & political tribalism' in P Kaarsholm & J Hultin (eds)
Inventions & boundaries: historical & anthropological approaches to
ethnicity & nationalism (IDS Roskilde Occasional Paper 11), 131-50.
39) 1995 (a) 'The prayers of Waiyaki: Political uses of the Kikuyu past': in
D M Anderson & D Johnson (eds), Revealing Prophets: prophecy in
East African History (James Currey, London), 240-91.
40) (b) 'Preface,' pp vii-viii, to Tom Askwith, From Mau Mau to Harambee
(Cambridge African Monographs No. 17).
41) 1996 (a) '"Listen while I read": the orality of Christian literacy in the young
Kenyatta's making of the Kikuyu,' in Louise de la Gorgendiere et al
(eds), Ethnicity in Africa: Roots, meanings & implications
(Centre of Afrn Studies, Edinburgh), 17-53.
42) (b) 'Moral ethnicity, ethnic nationalism and political tribalism: the case of the
Kikuyu,' in Peter Meyns (ed), Staat und gesellschaft in Afrika
(Lit, Hamburg), 93-106.
43) 1997 'Foreword,' pp. xvi-xxx, to Greet Kershaw, Mau Mau from below
(James Currey, Oxford)
44) 1998 (a) 'Conclusion: South Africa in African history,' in R Greenstein (ed),
Comparative Perspectives on South Africa (Macmillan), 287-305.
45) (b) (with B Berman) 'The labors of Muigwithania: Jomo Kenyatta as author,
1928-45,' Research in African Literatures 29:16-42.
46) 1999 (a) 'British East Africa', in Oxford History of the British Empire IV
eds. W R Louis & Judith Brown, (Oxford UP), 530-44.
47) (b) 'Foreword', pp. v-viii, to John K Karanja, Founding an African faith:
Kikuyu Anglican Christianity 1900-1945 (Uzima Press, Nairobi).
48) (c) 'Foreword' to Terence Gavaghan, Of lions and dungbeetles: A man in the
middle of colonial administration in Kenya (Stockwell, Ilfracombe), 7-11.
49) (d) 'Kikuyu Christianities', Jl of Religion in Africa, XXVIII, 4: 1-25.
50) (e) ‘British colonial officials and the Kikuyu people’, in John Smith, ed.,
Administering Empire: The British Colonial Service in Retrospect
(University of London Press), 95-102.
51) 2000 (a) 'Kenyatta's trials: breaking and making an African nationalist', ch 10
in The moral world of the law, ed. Peter Coss (Cambridge UP for Past
& Present Society), 196-239.
52) (b) 'Agency in tight corners: narrative and initiative in African history',
Editorial, pp. 5-16, in J Lonsdale's guest-edited issue of Jl of African
Cultural Studies 13, 1 in honour of Terence Ranger.
53) (c) 'KAU's cultures: imaginations of community & constructions of leadership
in Kenya after the second world war' in (52), 107-25.
54) (d) ‘African studies in the UK', African Studies Association of Australasia &
the Pacific: Review & Newsletter XXII, 2: 13-20.
55) 2002 (a) 'Kikuyu Christianities: A history of intimate diversity'—extended
version of (49), ch 6 in D Maxwell & I Lawrie (eds), Christianity &
the African Imagination (Brill, Leiden), 157-97.
56) (b) ‘Contests of time: Kikuyu historiography, old and new’, ch. 9 in
A Harneit-Sievers (ed.), A Place in the World: new local historiog
raphies from Africa & S Asia (Brill, Leiden), 201-54.
57) (c) ‘Globalization, ethnicity, and democracy: a view from “the Hopeless
Continent”’, ch. 9 in A G Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in World
History (Random House, London), 194-219.
58) (d) ‘Mission Christianity & settler colonialism in eastern Africa’, ch. 15 in
H Hansen & M Twaddle (eds.), Christian Missionaries & the State in
the Third World (Currey, Oxford), 194-211.
59) (e) ‘Jomo Kenyatta, God, and the Modern World’, ch. 3 in J-G Deutsch et al
(eds.), African Modernities (Currey, Oxford & Heinemann,
Portsmouth NH), 31-65.
60) (f) ‘Foreword’ to Gideon G Githiga, The Church as a Bulwark against
Authoritarianism in Kenya 1963-92 (Uzima Press, Nairobi), xi-xii.
61) (g) ‘Town life in colonial Kenya’, in A Burton (ed.), The Urban Experience
in Eastern Africa (British Institute, Nairobi), 207-22.
62) (h) ‘Bethwell Ogot: The liberal jabilo’, in Toyin Falola & Atieno Odhiambo
(eds.), The Challenges of History & Leadership in Africa: The Essays
of Bethwell A Ogot (Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ), lxi-lxvi.
64) 2003 (b) ‘Authority, Gender & Violence: The War within Mau Mau’s Fight
for Freedom’, ch 3 in 63 (Edited book, above) 34-72.
65) (c) ‘Le cas Kenyan: un débat moral et politique’, Politique africaine 90: 17-36
66) 2004 ‘Moral and political argument in Kenya’, ch 5 in Bruce Berman et al
(eds), Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (James Currey & Ohio UP: Oxford
& Athens OH), 73-95.
67) 2005 (a) (with C Elkins) ‘Ricordare i mau mau: conflitti di memoria nel
kenya postcoloniale’, in Alessandro Triulzi (ed.), Dopo la violenzia:
costruzioni di memoria nel mondo contemporaneo (l’ancora: Napoli), 159-96.
68) (b) ‘A very British Gulag’, review article in The Times, Saturday Review, 8
January.
69) (c) ‘Religion and Politics in Kenya’ Henry Martyn Lectures at
at http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/CJLonsdale.html
70) (d) ‘”Listen while I read”: Patriotic Christianity among the Young Gikuyu’, chapter 24 in Toyin Falola (ed.), Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of J D Y Peel (Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press), 563- 94.
71) (e) ‘African Studies, Europe and Africa’, Afrika Spectrum 40, 3: 377-402.
72) 2006: ‘Ornamental constitutionalism in Africa: Kenyatta and the Two Queens’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 34, 1: 87-104.
73) 2007: (with Bruce Berman) ‘Custom, modernity, and the search for Kihooto: Kenyatta, Malinowski, and the making of Facing Mount Kenya’, chapter 6 in Helen Tilley, with Robert J Gordon (eds), Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European imperialism, and the politics of knowledge (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press): 173-98.
74) 2008 (a) ‘Britannia’s Mau Mau’, chapter 19 in Penultimate Adventures with Britannia, ed Wm Roger Louis (London: Tauris), 259-73.
75) (b) ‘Soil, work, civilisation and citizenship in Kenya’, in Journal of Eastern African Studies 2, 2: 305-14.
76) 2009 (a) ‘Henry Muoria: public moralist’, Chapter 1, pp. 3-56 in Writing for Kenya: The Life and Works of Henry Muoria, co-edited with Wangari Muoria-Sal, Bodil Folke Frederiksen & Derek Peterson (Brill: Leiden).
78) (b) ‘Writing Competitive Patriotisms in East Africa’, pp 251-677 in Derek Peterson and Giacomo Macola (eds), Recasting the Past: Historical Writing and Political Work in Twentieth-Century Africa (Athens OH: Ohio UP).
79) (c) ‘Compromised Critics: Religion in Kenya’s Politics’, chapter 2 in Ben Knighton (ed) Religion and Politics in Kenya: Essays in honor of a meddlesome priest (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 57-94.
80) 2010 (a) ‘Foreword’ (and index) to T. H. R. Cashmore, ‘Studies in District Administration in the East Africa Protectorate (1895-1918)’ (Cambridge African Studies Centre: Occasional Paper).
(81) (b) ‘Kenya: Home County and African Frontier’, chapter 4 in Robert Bickers (ed.), Settlers and Expatriates: British communities overseas, pp. 74-111, (Oxford University Press).
(82) 2011 (a) Dominique Connan and Johanna Siméant, ‘John Lonsdale, le nationalisme, l’ethnicité et léconomie morale: parcours d’un pionnier de l’histoire africaine’, Genèses 83 (Paris), 133-54. (Article by interview)
(84) 2012 (a) ‘Ethnic patriotism and markets in African History’, chapter 1 in Hiroyuki Hino (et al), (85) above, 19-55.
86) 2013 (a) ‘Anti-colonial nationalism and patriotism in Sub-Saharan Africa’, chapter 16 in John Breuilly (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (Oxford University Press): 318-37.
87) (b) (with Bruce Berman), ‘Nationalism in colonial and post-colonial Africa’, chapter 15 in Breuilly (ed.): 308-17.
88) (c) ‘Kenya’s history from Cambridge by candlelight’, chapter 8 in William R. Ochieng’ (ed.), A History of Independent Kenya, 1963-2013 (Kisumu: Lake Publishers), 237-71.
Forthcoming 2014
89) ‘Did African nationalism continue imperialism’s world revolution by other means?’ For ASEN (LSE journal for the study of ethnicity and nationalism).
(90) ‘What if anything is wrong with Africa?’ (in Polish)
New editions & translations of previously published work
1970 'Nationalism & traditionalism in East Africa', pp. 379-89 in Problems in the
History of Colonial Africa, ed R O Collins (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs)
[edited version of (1)].
1987 'The contradictions of the colonial state in Kenya', in The Political Economy
of Law: a Third World Reader, ed Y Ghai et al (OUP, New Delhi) [edited
version of (16)].
1990 'Le passé de l'Afrique au secours de son avenir', Politique africaine 39 (Sept),
pp. 135-154 [translation of (29)]
1992 'Towards the new order in East Africa 1945-63' (with D.A. Low), ch 7 in
D A Low, Eclipse of Empire (CUP) [reprint of (12)]
1993 (a) 'Some origins of nationalism in East Africa' (1);
(b) 'Mau Maus of the mind' (32), both in G Maddox et al (eds), Colonialism
& nationalism in Africa (Garland, NY)
1994 'Some origins of nationalism in East Africa' (1), in R O Collins (ed),
Problems in African History II (Markus Wiener, NY)
1996 'Ethnicité morale et tribalisme politique', Politique africaine 61, 98-115
[translation of revised (42)].
