I wrote a book entitled Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty & Citizenship in East Africa (Cambridge UP, 2024). It examines decolonisation in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda as a problem of economic self-determination and valuation, covering topics like central banking and smuggling. You can learn more about the book on the publisher’s website here, and you can access some resources that may assist in teaching it (should you be so inclined). If you have trouble accessing it, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. A paperback can be purchased from Cambridge, Amazon, or Bookshop.org.
I was interviewed on the New Books Network about the book. You can listen here.
Tinashe Nyamunda arranged an extensive forum about its arguments in the Journal of Southern African Studies, with a long overview essay by me and responses from Parker Shipton, Deborah James, Karin Pallaver, Mariusz Lukasiewicz, Toby Green, and Jeremy L. Jones.
It received Honorable Mentions for the Sharon Stephens Prize (from the American Ethnological Association) and the President’s Book Award (from the Social Science History Association).
