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• Allen, James de Vere. Lamu Town: A Guide. Lamu, Kenya: Allen, 1974.
• Allen, James de Vere. "The Peopling of the Lamu-Southern Benadir Hinterland in the 14th-17th Centuries," in the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies edited by Hussein M. Adam and Charles L. Geshekter, pp. 3-24. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1992.
• Allen, James de Vere. "The Siwas of Pate and Lamu: Two Antique Side-Blown Horns from the Swahili Coast." Art and Archaeology Research Paper 9 (1976): pp. 38-47.
• Allen, James de Vere and T. H. Wilson. Swahili Houses and Tombs of the Coast of Kenya. Art and Archaeology Research Paper Supplement. London: AARP, 1979.
• Andersen, Kaj Blegvad. African Traditional Architecture: A Study of the Housing and Settlement Patterns of Rural Kenya. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
• Arensen, Jonathan E. Sticks & Straw: Comparative House Forms in Southern Sudan and Northern Kenya. International Museum of Cultures 13. Dallas: International Museum of Cultures, 1983.
• Behrend, Heike. "'Feeling Global': The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya." African Arts 33, no. 3 (Autumn 2000): pp. 70-77, 96.
• Bellomo, Randy V. "Early Pleistocene Fire Technology in Northern Kenya," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 16-28. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Boxer, C. R. and Carlos de Azevedo. Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa: 1593-1729. London: Hollis & Carter, 1960.
• Carter, P. L. "Hunter Gatherers: Past and Present." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 67-69.
• Cupers, Kenny and Prita Meier. "Infrastructure between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway." JSAH: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 1 (March 2020): pp. 61-81.
• Darkwa, A. Traditional Music and Dance in Luo Community Life. Anthropos 80, no. 4-6 (1985): pp. 646-52.
• Esbin, Howard Bennett. Carving Lives from Stone: Visual Literacy in an African Cottage Industry. Ph.D., McGill University, 1998.
• Fratkin, Elliot. "The Laibon Diviner and Healer among Samburu Pastoralists of Kenya," in Divination and Healing: Potent Vision edited by Michael Winkelman and Philip M. Peek, pp. 207-226. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2004.
• Frankl, P. J. L. "The Old German Consulate in British East Africa: A Mombasa Mansion and Its Carved Door." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (London) 30, no. 2 (Nov. 2003): pp. 137-53.
• Giles, Linda, Monica Udvardy, and John Mitsanze. "Cultural Property as Global Commodities: The Case of Mijikenda Memorial Statues." Cultural Survival Quarterly (Cambridge, MA) 27, no. 4 (winter 2004): pp. 78-81.
• Hobley, C. W. "100. An Arab Minaret on Mombasa Island." Man: A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science (London) 32 (March 1932): p. 79.
• Kader, Themina. Material Culture Studies and Art Education: Examing the Cultural Artifacts of the Bohra from Makaan to Masjid. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2000.
• Kahimbaara, J.A. "The Population Density Gradient and the Spatial Structure of a Third World City: Nairobi, A Case Study." Urban Studies 23, no. 4 (1986): pp. 307-22.
• Kirkman, James S. The Arab City of Gedi: Excavations at the Great Mosque, Architecture and Finds. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.
• Kirkman, James S. “Archaeological Research on the Coast of Kenya.” Uganda Museum Occasional Paper 4 (1959): pp. 18-25.
• Kirkman, James S. “The Culture of the Kenya Coast in the Later Middle Ages.” South African Archaeological Bulletin (1956) 11: pp. 89-99.
• Kirkman, James S. “The Excavations at Kilepwa.” The Antiquaries Journal 32 (1952): pp. 168—84.
• Kirkman, James S. Fort Jesus: A Portuguese Fortress on the East African Coast. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
• Kirkman, James S. Fort Jesus, Mombasa. Eighth English edition. Museum Trustees of Kenya. Mombasa: Rodwell Press, 1975.
• Kirkman, James S. "Fort Jesus Museum Collection Mombasa." Kenya Past and Present 1, no. 2 (1972): pp. 4-9.
• Kirkman, James S. Gedi (Eighth English edition). Museum Trustees of Kenya. Mombasa: Rodwell Press, 1975.
• Kirkman, James S. Gedi: The Palace. The Hague: Mouton, 1963.
• Kirkman, James S. “The Great Pillars of Malindi and Mambrui.” Oriental Art 4 (1958): pp. 3-15.
• Kirkman, James S. “Historical Archaeology in Kenya 1948—1956." The Antiquaries Journal 37 (1957): pp. 16— 29.
• Kirkman, James S. “The House of the Dhow.” Journal of the Kenya Natural History Society 22 (1956): pp. 1-5.
• Kirkman, James S. “Les importations de ceramique sur la côte du Kenya.” Revue de Madagascar 35 (1966): pp. 1-10.
• Kirkman, James S. “Kinuni - an Arab Manor on the Coast of Kenya." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3-4 (1957): pp. 145-150.
• Kirkman, James S. “Mnari of Kilifi: The Mosques and Tombs.” Ars Orientalis 3 (1959): pp. 95-112.
• Kirkman, James S. "The Mombasa frigate." Kenya Past and Present 1, no. 3 (1972): pp. 25-26.
• Kirkman, James S. Notes on Jumba la Mtwana. National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Museum Society, 1974.
• Kirkman, James S. "A Portuguese Wreck off Mombasa, Kenya." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 1 (1972): pp. 153-157.
• Kirkman, James S. “Potters’ Marks from Mediaeval Arab Sites in Kenya.” South African Archaeological Bulletin 13 (1958): pp. 156-159.
• Kirkman, James S. "Some Conclusions from Archaeological Excavations on the Coast of Kenya, 1948-1966,” in East Africa and the Orient, ed. by H. N. Chittick and R. I., pp. 226-247. New York and London: Africana Publishing Co., 1975.
• Kirkman, James S. “Takwa - the Mosque of the Pillar.” Ars Orientalis 2 (1957): pp. 175-82.
• Kirkman, James S. The Tomb of the Dated Inscription at Gedi. Occasional Paper No. 14 of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1960.
• Kirkman, James S. Ungwana on the Tana. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
• Kirkman, James S. “The Well by the Gate.” Gedi National Park: Interim Report 1. Kenya National Parks Trustees, 1948.
• Kusimba, Chapurukha M., David J. Killick, and Richard G. Cresswell. "Indigenous and Imported Metals at Swahili Sites on the Coast of Kenya," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 63-77. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Langdon, J. and P. Robertshaw "Petrographic and Physico-Chemical Studies of Early Pottery from South-Western Kenya." Azania 20 (1985): pp. 1-28.
• Mahoney, Dillon. "Changing Strategies in Marketing Kenya's Tourist Art." African Studies Review 55, no. 1 (April 2012): pp. 161-190.
• Malinda, Ato. “Artist’s Statement.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): p. 54.
• Merrick, Harry V., Francis H. Brown, and William P. Nash. "Use and Movement of Obsidian in the Early and Middle Stone Ages of Kenya and Northern Tanzania," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 29-44. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Ndegwa, Lucy W. "Les musées au Kenya: une campagne éducatif." Museum 36, no. 4 (1984): pp. 228-232.
• Neky, Alykhan A. Chrysalis: An African Vernacular Architecture Metamorphosis. M. Arch. dissertation, Ryerson University, 2018.
• Noll, Michael Peter. Components of Acheulean Lithic Assemblage Variability at Olorgasailie, Kenya. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.
• Obudho, R.A. "Multivariate Analysis of Kenya's Urban System." GeoJournal 13, no. 4 (1986): p. 385-99.
• Petek, Nik and Paul Lane. "Ethnogenesis and surplus food production: communitas and identity building among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ilchamus, Lake Baringo, Kenya." World Archaeology 49, no. 1 (2017): pp. 40-60.
• Richardson, H.W. "An Urban Development Strategy for Kenya." The Journal of Developing Areas 15 (1980): pp. ????.
• Richardson, H.W. "An Urban Development Strategy for Kenya," in Urban Development in the Third World edited by P.K. Ghosh, pp. 287-311. International Development Resource Books, 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Scott, Monique Renee. Up from Africa: Natural History Museums and the Making of Ancestral Meaning. Ph.D., Yale University, 2004.
• Sharma, K.L. "Rural-Urban Integration in National Development: A Strategy of Spatial Planning for Human Settlement in Kenya," in Equity with Growth?: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries edited by H.D. Kammeier and P.J. Swan, pp. 275-8. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 1984.
• Spencer, P. "Dance as Antithesis in the Samburu Discourse," in Society and Dance: The Social Anthropology of Process and Performance edited by P. Spencer, pp. 140-64. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• Wilson, Thomas H. "Settlement Patterns of the Coast of Southern Somalia and Kenya," in the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies edited by Hussein M. Adam and Charles L. Geshekter, pp. 74-109. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1992.