Richard Waller


Richard Waller lectures in the Department of African Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, having received his doctorate from the University of Cologne and his Habilitation from Bayreuth. He has published widely on Nilotic, Maa, Khoisan, and Bantu language history, including The Eastern Nilotes (1982), Towards a Comparative Study of the Maa Dialects of Kenya and Tanzania (1988), Patterns of Language Knowledge and Language Use in Ngamiland, Botswana (1988), New Perspective on the Study of Khoisan (1988), and Die Khoe-Sprachen (in press).


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Being Maasai

Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa

Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania. But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters.…

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