Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani s schools and water resources are supplied by funds from immigrants, and what the impact of mixed marriages is on notions of kinship and belonging as well as the economy. This unique story about a small Kenyan town also recounts a wider tale of opportunity, oppression, resilience, exploitation, domination, and accommodation in a world of economic, political, and social change."

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Berman, Nina

Quarry Books

United States, United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana, 2017

Illustrated, PS, 2017

United States, 2017

Mobilism

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"Shed[s] light on the romantic, psychosexual and psychosocial, and economic entanglements that tie German tourists to their Kenyan hosts." — Daily Nation
Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani's schools and water resources are supplied by funds from immigrants, and what the impact of mixed marriages is on notions of kinship and belonging as well as the economy. This unique story about a small Kenyan town also recounts a wider tale of opportunity, oppression, resilience, exploitation, domination, and accommodation in a world of economic, political, and social change.
"In this richly detailed book, Nina Berman tracks the influx of thousands of German-speaking tourists and residents, especially in the 1990s, and the making of a distinctive Kenyan-European cultural enclave in the coastal community of Diani as many of these visitors choose to extend their stay as long-term residents." —Ann Biersteker, author of Masomo ya Kisasa: Contemporary Readings in Swahili
" A n informative and thought-provoking work that deserves to be read by scholars of Kenya and those interested in globalized structures of gentrification, north-south humanitarian assistance, and love and romance in Africa." — African Studies Quarterly

Cover
GERMANS ON THE KENYAN COAST
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Multitudinal Coastal Entanglements: Pwani si Kenya—Pwani ni Kenya—Pwani ni Ujerumani (na Italia na kadhalika)
2 Land
3 Charity
4 Romance
Epilogue: Je, Vitaturudia? Will They Return to Us?
Appendix: Maps and Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index

2022-02-18