Cartography and the Political ImaginationAfter four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic nameLuyiaappeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic invention. At the same time, current restrictive theories privileging ethnic homogeneity fail to explain this defiantly diverse ethnic project, which now comprises the second largest ethnic group in Kenya. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, which