Defeating Mau Mau

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521130905

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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya by Daniel Branch Pdf

This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion. Moreover, the book moves toward a more nuanced understanding of the realities and effects of counterinsurgency warfare. Based on archival research in Kenya and the United Kingdom and insights from literature from across the social sciences, the book reconstructs the dilemmas facing members of society at war with itself and its colonial ruler.

Author : Louis Leakey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136530807

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Defeating Mau Mau by Louis Leakey Pdf

The second of two important books by Louis Leakey, the renowned expert on the Kikuyu tribe. This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau movement, its propaganda, the nature of its religious aspects and its oaths and the mistakes its leaders made as well as covering chapters on necessary reforms to prevent further outbreaks of a similar nature.

Author : Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:716449361

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Defeating Mau Mau by Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey Pdf

Author : Louis S. B. Leakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070428577

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Defeating Mau Mau by Louis S. B. Leakey Pdf

Author : Louis Leakey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136531019

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Mau Mau and the Kikuyu by Louis Leakey Pdf

This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization. This discussion illustrates why and how the Mau Mau came into being and how the situation could be improved so that peace could once again come to Kenya.

Author : L. S. B. Leakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758182511

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Defeating Mau Mau by L. S. B. Leakey Pdf

Author : Laura Lee P. Huttenbach
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780896804883

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The Boy Is Gone by Laura Lee P. Huttenbach Pdf

A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed suit, crisp tie, and freshly polished shoes. For most of the last four decades, however, he dressed for work in the primary school classroom and on his lush tea farm. The General, as he came to be called from his leadership of the Mau Mau uprising sixty years ago, narrates his life story in conversation with Laura Lee Huttenbach, a young American who met him while backpacking in Kenya in 2006. A gifted storyteller with a keen appreciation for language and a sense of responsibility as a repository of his people’s history, the General talks of his childhood in the voice of a young boy, his fight against the British in the voice of a soldier, and his long life in the voice of shrewd elder. While his life experiences are his alone, his story adds immeasurably to the long history of decolonization as it played out across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Author : Greet Kershaw
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0821411551

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Mau Mau from Below by Greet Kershaw Pdf

"This is the oral evidence of the Kikuyu villagers with whom Greet Kershaw lived as an aid worker during the Mau Mau 'Emergency' in the 1950s, and which is now totally irrecoverable in any form save in her own field notes. Professor Kershaw has uncovered long local histories of social tension which could have been revealed by no other means than patient enquiry, of both her neighbour's memory and government archives... Nobody, whether Kikuyu participant, Kenyan or European scholar, has provided such startlingly authoritative ethnographic insights into the values, fears and expectations of Kikuyu society and thus of the motivation of Kikuyu action... Her data suggests, as other scholars have also accepted, that there never was a single such movement and that none of its members, even those who supposed themselves to be its leaders, ever saw it whole, not because they did not have a political aim, but because that agenda was contested within different political circles over which they had no control and of which they may scarcely have had any knowledge. And why is this finding important? It is because others, including almost all the movement's enemies, did see Mau Mau whole in order to try to comprehend it, a first step towards defeating it."

Author : Myles Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316061633

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Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya by Myles Osborne Pdf

This book is about the creation and development of ethnic identity among the Kamba. Comprising approximately one-eighth of Kenya's population, the British considered the Kamba East Africa's premier 'martial race' by the mid-twentieth century: a people with an apparent aptitude for soldiering. The reputation, indeed, was one that Kamba leaders used to leverage financial rewards from the colonial state. However, beneath this simplistic exterior was a maelstrom of argument and debate. Men and women, young and old, Christians and non-Christians, and the elite and poor fought over the virtues they considered worthy of honor in their communities, and which of their visions should constitute 'Kamba' identity. Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews, Ethnicity and Empire is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering, 'loyalty', martial race, and indeed the nature of empire itself.

Author : David F. Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429711800

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Decolonization And The State In Kenya by David F. Gordon Pdf

In this book the author examines the efforts of the colonial regime to shape the process of decolonization in Kenya from the end of World War II until independence in 1963, focusing on the conflict between the state’s two imperatives–promoting economic development and establishing and maintaining control. Dr. Gordon reviews the different political

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Random House
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448162734

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Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins Pdf

Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold. Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

Author : Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465465

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The Power of the Oath by Mickie Mwanzia Koster Pdf

C Survey Ritual Analysis 2008 and Mungiki Survey Analysis 2011 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521113822

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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya by Daniel Branch Pdf

This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion. Moreover, the book moves toward a more nuanced understanding of the realities and effects of counterinsurgency warfare. Based on archival research in Kenya and the United Kingdom and insights from literature from across the social sciences, the book reconstructs the dilemmas facing members of society at war with itself and its colonial ruler.

Author : Karari Njama,Donald L Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1988832594

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Mau Mau From Within by Karari Njama,Donald L Barnett Pdf

Mau Mau from Within is told by Karari Njama, a school teacher who was directly involved in the struggles for freedom from colonial rule, to anthropologist Donald L Barnett. As the late Basil Davidson put it: "Njama writes of the forest leaders' efforts to overcome dissension, to evolve effective tactics, to keep discipline (including sexual discipline) and mete out justice ... His narrative is crowded with excitement. Those who know much of Africa and those who know little will alike find it compulsive reading. Some 10,000 Africans died fighting in those years . Here, in the harsh detail of everyday experience, are the reasons why." Originally published as Mau Mau From Within: An analysis of Kenya's Peasant Revolt, it is a story of courage, passion, heroism, combined with recounting of colonial terror, brutality and betrayal. Far from being just an analysis of a peasant revolt, this is the inside story of the struggles of Kenya's Land and Freedom Army told from within by a person who worked closely with Dedan Kimathi. This new expanded edition includes new commentary by Karari Njama, and contributions from Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Micere Githae Mugo as well as a statement from Gitu Wa Kahengeri, Secretary General of the Mau Mau War Veterans Association.

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1429900296

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Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins Pdf

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth- century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.