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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Edward I. Steinhart. Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya. (Eastern African Studies.) Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 248. Cloth $49.95, paper $26.95.
I have long since forgotten the substance of my one visit to the Harvard Club in New York, but the exotic animal trophies on display there made an indelible impression. These trophies are part of the legacy of President Theodore Roosevelt's famous 1909 African safari: remnants of the more than 500 animals bagged by Roosevelt and his son as they cut a bloody path across the African savanna in the name of science and sport. These trophies and others like them, as well as a host of big game memoirs and later accounts of photographic expeditions, have shaped impressions of East Africa for generations. But as Edward I. Steinhart passionately argues, the result has not only been a romantic distortion of white hunting practices but the virtual erasure of the history of African hunting.	1
The simple genius of this fascinating study is that it integrates the histories of hunting by African people in Kenya and hunting by white residents and visitors to the colony. The result is a book that offers a fresh angle on the late precolonial and colonial Kenyan history, as it engagingly challenges stereotypes surrounding hunting and more soberly traces the sad process through which African hunting was marginalized. A long list of hunter-authors have romanticized the culture of the white safari and celebrated its evolution from blood sport to tourist enterprise; a much more recent, critical scholarship links this enduring fascination with African wildlife and white hunting to issues related to a larger imperial ideology. But Kenya historians (including this reviewer) have largely ignored African hunting and the role of African hunters in the history of white hunting in East Africa.	. . .

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