East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

" Anderson's work reveals how, in the course of suppressing the Mau Mau revolt, Kenya's
British rulers were responsible for thousands of unjustifiable killings, for gross abuses of …

Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman
period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still …

Livestock raiding among northern Kenya's pastoralists has changed profoundly in the last
decades. Fought with modern weaponry and often extreme violence, raiding is increasingly …

This review explores what past environmental change in Africa—and African people's
response to it—can teach us about how to cope with life in the Anthropocene. Organized …

This article offers a preliminary analysis of the outbreak of violence in the Rift Valley
Province of Kenya, over January and February 2008, following the national elections of …

In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take
power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars-a …

This article examines the effect of climate change on a type of armed conflict that pits
pastoralists (cattle herders) against each other (range wars). Such conflicts are typically …

Recent decades have witnessed heightened public and governmental awareness of the
nature and scale of environmental challenges likely to face the planet over the course of the …

Soil erosion and land degradation are serious problems in tropical Africa, especially Sub-
Saharan Africa, where they are widely recognized as more serious problems than in non …