Mukami Kimathi Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter

Author : Nderitu, Wairimu
Publisher : Mdahalo Bridging Divides
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966190321

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Mukami Kimathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter by Nderitu, Wairimu Pdf

Mũkami Kĩmathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter is the story of the brave wife of one of Kenya’s foremost freedom fighters, Field Marshal Dedan Kĩmathi Waciũri. Kĩmathi led the Mau Mau war in Kenya’s independence struggle against the British colonialists. Mũkami’s role as a daughter, wife, mother, freedom fighter and leader is varied and very complex. Her story spans pre and post-independent Kenya. Her experiences provide an important complement to existing written literature on Kenya’s history. In 2003, the Mwai Kĩbakĩ Government lifted the ban put in place by the British colonialists declaring the Mau Mau as terrorists, and recognised Mũkami Kĩmathi and other freedom fighters as national heroes and heroines celebrated on 20th October as Mashujaa Day. This book gives an insight into the role of women freedom fighters and the struggles they faced both during and after the war. It is an incredible story of immense self-sacrifice and love for Kenya. Mũkami provides the lens to see the wider picture of women in the independence struggle, the neglect and betrayal of wives of Mau Mau fighters in particular and women in general in Kenya’s making. Beyond her role in the independence struggle, Mũkami’s story has many historical highlights such as time shared with Kĩmathi, meeting Nelson Mandela and her fruitful and strong relationship with Kenya’s human rights movement.

Author : Micere Githae Mugo
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Kenya
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115191749

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Muthoni Wa Kirima, Mau Mau Woman Field Marshal by Micere Githae Mugo Pdf

Author : David Njeng'ere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113620319

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Dedan Kimathi by David Njeng'ere Pdf

Author : Durrani, Shiraz
Publisher : Vita Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966804020

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Mau Mau the Revolutionary, Anti-Imperialist Force from Kenya: 1948-1963 by Durrani, Shiraz Pdf

Very few countries hide or obscure the significance of their most important historical achievements. Kenya has managed to do so without any regrets or even a thought about the implication of such a major oversight in connection with Mau Mau Resistance. The reason for this underplay is not difficult to understand. The government that came to power at independence was not only not part of the Mau Mau movement which fought for land and freedom for working people, but actively opposed it. It sought – and was given by the departing colonial power – state power, land and freedom for its class, thereby sidelining the radical resistance movement and its activists. This elite then used its state power to ensure that the nation forgets its radical history which would have alerted future generations to the theft of their inheritance and country. This book provides essential facts about Mau Mau. It seeks to give voice to the Mau Mau resistance fighters. It is aimed at young people who were born after independence and who have been deprived of their historical heritage; it is also a tribute to those who played a part in the war of independence and in Mau Mau without whose contribution independence would have remained a dream. It seeks to restore Kenya’s working class history of resistance to colonialism and imperialism. The Kenya Resists Series covers different aspects of resistance by people of Kenya to colonialism and imperialism. It reproduces material from books, unpublished reports, research and oral or visual testimonies. The three aspects chosen for the first three publications in the Series – Mau Mau, Trade Unions and People’s Resistance – make up the three pillars of resistance of the people of Kenya.

Author : María José Gámez Fuentes,Sonia Núñez Puente,Emma Gómez Nicolau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351043588

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Re-writing Women as Victims by María José Gámez Fuentes,Sonia Núñez Puente,Emma Gómez Nicolau Pdf

This volume critically analyses political strategies, civil society initiatives and modes of representation that challenge the conventional narratives of women in contexts of violence. It deepens into the concepts of victimhood and agency that inform the current debate on women as victims. The volume opens the scope to explore initiatives that transcend the pair abuser–victim and explore the complex relations between gender and violence, and individual and collective accountability, through politics, activism and cultural productions in order to seek social transformation for gender justice. In innovative and interdisciplinary case studies, it brings attention to initiatives and narratives that make new spaces possible in which to name, self-identify, and resignify the female political subject as a social agent in situations of violence. The volume is global in scope, bringing together contributions ranging from India, Cambodia or Kenya, to Quebec, Bosnia or Spain. Different aspects of gender-based violence are analysed, from intimate relationships, sexual violence, military contexts, society and institutions. Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice will be a key text for students, researchers and professionals in gender studies, political sciences, sociology and media and cultural Studies. Activists and policy makers will also find its practical approach and engagement with social transformation to be essential reading.

Author : Muthoni G. Likimani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015017633697

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Passbook Number F.47927 by Muthoni G. Likimani Pdf

Author : Ruth Wairimu Karani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122212736

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Field Marshall Muthoni by Ruth Wairimu Karani Pdf

Author : Durrani, Shiraz
Publisher : Vita Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966114525

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People's Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism in Kenya by Durrani, Shiraz Pdf

This book looks at the third pillar of resistance to British colonialism – people’s resistance, the others being Mau Mau and radical trade union movement. It brings together several aspects of people’s resistance to colonialism and imperialism – before and after independence and includes resistance by nationalities, women, students, peasants and workers in what can only be described as people’s resistance. While Mau Mau and trade unions were essential in the liberation struggle, on their own they would have faced innumerable difficulties to achieve their goal. Peasants, nationalities, women, children and young people, students, independent churches, independent schools, all played a part in reinforcing the organized and ideology led resistance of Mau Mau and trade unions. Additional material is included to provide thought for reflections. The first two essays deal with the question of nationalities and with the contradictions between capitalism and socialism with the collapse of USSR. They point to the fact that that the struggle in Kenya influences, and is in turn influenced by, developments around the world. The next section is the presentation at the launch of Kenya’s War of Independence in Nairobi on February 21, 2018. The final section contains solidarity messages from Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdalla and Kang'ethe Mungai at the event to commemorate and celebrate the revolutionary work of Karimi Nduthu held on March 24, 2018 at the Professional Centre in Nairobi. The Kenya Resists Series covers different aspects of resistance by people of Kenya to colonialism and imperialism. It reproduces material from books, unpublished reports, research and oral or visual testimonies. The three aspects chosen for the first three publications in the Series – Mau Mau, Trade Unions and People’s Resistance – make up the three pillars of resistance of the people of Kenya.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Micere Githae Mugo
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781478611707

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The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Micere Githae Mugo Pdf

Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his collaborator, Micere Githae Mugo, have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi’s life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights’ response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical “trial” at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is “an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement.”

Author : H. K. Wachanga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Kenya
ISBN : UCSC:32106013307308

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The Swords of Kirinyaga by H. K. Wachanga Pdf

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143039174

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Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Pdf

“The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.

Author : Durrani, Shiraz
Publisher : Vita Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789966189011

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Kenya's War of Independence by Durrani, Shiraz Pdf

Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya’s stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations. In this expanded and revised version of his 1986 booklet, Kimaathi, Mau Mau's First Prime Minister of Kenya, Durrani covers Mau Mau’s resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism and reflects on its ideology, organisation and achievements. He sees Mau Mau in the larger context of Kenya’s war of independence and looks at the influence of organised, radical trade unions as the engine of resistance, linking economic with political demands of working people. Additional chapters document the post-independence resistance by the underground December Twelve Movement-Mwakenya. Durrani captures the dynamism of transition from colonialism to neo-colonialism: “Imperialism replaced colonialism, African elites replaced White Settlers, neo-colonial government replaced colonial government. Resistance changed from the War of Independence to War of Economic Independence. Worker and peasant resistance is evident once again. History is on the march”.

Author : Priscilla Kivuitu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121980523

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Milestones in History and Government by Priscilla Kivuitu Pdf

Author : Shiraz Durrani
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Anders Ese,Kristin Ese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000096774

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The City Makers of Nairobi by Anders Ese,Kristin Ese Pdf

The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period. Although Nairobi was a colonial construct with lasting negative repercussions, the African population’s impact on its history and development is often overlooked. This book shows how Africans took an active part in making use of the city and creating it, and how they were far from being subjects in the development of a European colonial city. This re-interpretation of Nairobi’s history suggests that the post-colonial city is the result of more than unjust and segregative colonial planning. Merging historical documentation with extensive contemporary urban theory, this book provides in-depth knowledge of the key historical roles played by locals in the development of their city. It argues that the idea of agency, a popular inroad to urban development today, is not a current phenomenon but one that has always existed with its many social, spatial, and physical ramifications. This is an ideal read for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying the history of urban development and theories, providing an in-depth case study for reference. The City Makers of Nairobi broaches interdisciplinary themes important to urban planners, social scientists, historians, and those working with popular settlements in cities across the world.