Dis-Ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change Among the Abanyole of Western Kenya: 47

I married into an Abanyole family from the Maseno, Kenya area, and have some familiarity with this subject matter. My wife’s grandfather was a rainmaker and headman in a nearby village. But this works as a general as well as particular focus on the intersection of colonial medicine and what was evolving traditional culture, and may shed light on similar experiences elsewhere in Africa. I found it richer, and more enlightening, than other histories of the Abaluyia peoples that I’ve read. Professor Olumwullah draws on many disciplines in creating something more than a dry medical history.