Defeating Mau Mau Creating Kenya

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Louis Leakey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 Seymour Bazett Leakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Kenya
ISBN : OCLC:705792761

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Defeating Mau Mau by Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey Pdf

Author : L. S. B. Leakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758182511

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

Author : Myles Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Louis S. B. Leakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070428577

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Defeating Mau Mau by Louis S. B. Leakey Pdf

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300180640

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Kenya by Daniel Branch Pdf

On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people's dream remains elusive. During its first five decades Kenya has experienced assassinations, riots, coup attempts, ethnic violence, and political corruption. The ranks of the disaffected, the unemployed, and the poor have multiplied. In this authoritative and insightful account of Kenya's history from 1963 to the present day, Daniel Branch sheds new light on the nation's struggles and the complicated causes behind them.Branch describes how Kenya constructed itself as a state and how ethnicity has proved a powerful force in national politics from the start, as have disorder and violence. He explores such divisive political issues as the needs of the landless poor, international relations with Britain and with the Cold War superpowers, and the direction of economic development. Tracing an escalation of government corruption over time, the author brings his discussion to the present, paying particular attention to the rigged election of 2007, the subsequent compromise government, and Kenya's prospects as a still-evolving independent state.

Author : Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004435209

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The Contested Lands of Laikipia by Marie Ladekjær Gravesen Pdf

Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Random House
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0300148763

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Kenya by Daniel Branch Pdf

On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people's dream remains elusive. During its first five decades Kenya has experienced assassinations, riots, coup attempts, ethnic violence, and political corruption. The ranks of the disaffected, the unemployed, and the poor have multiplied. In this authoritative and insightful account of Kenya's history from 1963 to the present day, Daniel Branch sheds new light on the nation's struggles and the complicated causes behind them. Branch describes how Kenya constructed itself as a state and how ethnicity has proved a powerful force in national politics from the start, as have disorder and violence. He explores such divisive political issues as the needs of the landless poor, international relations with Britain and with the Cold War superpowers, and the direction of economic development. Tracing an escalation of government corruption over time, the author brings his discussion to the present, paying particular attention to the rigged election of 2007, the subsequent compromise government, and Kenya's prospects as a still-evolving independent state.

Author : Hiroyuki Hino,Arnim Langer,John Lonsdale,Frances Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108476607

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From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures by Hiroyuki Hino,Arnim Langer,John Lonsdale,Frances Stewart Pdf

Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.

Author : Shiraz Durrani
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789966189059

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Never Be Silent by Shiraz Durrani Pdf

We will never be silent until we get land to cultivate and freedom in this country of ours so sang Mau Mau activists. The struggle for independence in Kenya was waged at many levels. Never be Silent explores how this struggle was reflected in the communications field. It looks at publishing activities of the main contending forces and explores internal contradictions within each community. It documents the major part played by the communications activities of the organised working class and Mau Mau in the achievement of independence in Kenya. The book contributes to a reinterpretation of colonial history in Kenya from a working class point of view and also provides a new perspective on how communications can be a weapon for social justice in the hands of liberation forces.

Author : Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Bethwell A. Ogot,William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 0821410512

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Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940-93 by Bethwell A. Ogot,William Robert Ochieng' Pdf

This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the book is a courageous reflection in the dilemmas of African nationhood. Professor B. A. Ogot says: "The main purpose of the book is to show that decolonization does not only mean the transfer of alien power to sovereign nationhood; it must also entail the liberation of the worlds of spirit and culture, as well as economics and politics. "The book also raises a more fundamental question, that is: How much independence is available to any state, national economy or culture in today's world? It asks how far are Africa's miseries linked to the colonial past and to the process of decolonization? "In particular the book raises the basic question of how far Kenya is avoidably neo-colonial? And what does neo-colonial dependence mean? The book answers these questions by discussing the dynamic between the politics of decolonization, the social history of class formation and the economics of dependence. The book ends with a provocative epilogue discussing the transformation of the post-colonial state from a single-party to a multi-party system."