The Last Mau Mau

Author : David Njagi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Kenya
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070024489

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The Last Mau Mau by David Njagi Pdf

Author : David Njagi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Kenya
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009091245

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The Last Mau Mau Field Marshals by David Njagi Pdf

Author : Julie MacArthur
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896805019

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Dedan Kimathi on Trial by Julie MacArthur Pdf

The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious Kenyan history and its reverberations in the postcolonial present. Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau Mau Rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant, modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Here, the entire trial transcript is available for the first time. This critical edition also includes provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by Willy Mutunga.

Author : Karari Njama,Donald L Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Nicholas van der Bijl
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473864597

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Mau Mau Rebellion by Nicholas van der Bijl Pdf

In The Mau Mau Rebellion, the author describes the background to and the course of a short but brutal late colonial campaign in Kenya. The Mau Mau, a violent and secretive Kikuyu society, aimed to restore the proud tribes pre-colonial superiority and rule. The 1940s saw initial targeting of Africans working for the colonial government and by 1952 the situation had deteriorated so badly that a State of Emergency was declared. The plan for mass arrests leaked and many leaders and supporters escaped to the bush where the gangs formed a military structure. Brutal attacks on both whites and loyal natives caused morale problems and local police and military were overwhelmed. Reinforcements were called in, and harsh measures including mass deportation, protected camps, fines, confiscation of property and extreme intelligence gathering employed were employed. War crimes were committed by both sides.As this well researched book demonstrates the campaign was ultimately successful militarily, politically the dye was cast and paradoxically colonial rule gave way to independence in 1956.

Author : S. Alam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230606999

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Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya by S. Alam Pdf

This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective.

Author : Robert Buijtenhuijs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111416373

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Mau Mau – Twenty Years after by Robert Buijtenhuijs Pdf

Author : Wunyabari O. Maloba
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0852557450

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Mau Mau and Kenya by Wunyabari O. Maloba Pdf

Widens the debate about the Mau Mau revolt and adds an African voice to the examination and interpretation of an important event in African history. Maloba examines the part played by Mau Mau in Kenyan nationalism and its independence movement. Wunyabari Maloba is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of the African Studies Program, University of Delaware North America: Indiana U Press

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Random House
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Louis Leakey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 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.

Author : Huw C. Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029705

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Fighting the Mau Mau by Huw C. Bennett Pdf

This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038608506

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The Mau Mau War in Perspective by Frank Furedi Pdf

The book breaks new ground in following the story of the participants of the rural movement during the decade after the defeat of the Mau Mau. New archival sources and interviews provide exciting material on the mechanics of the sociology of decolonization and on the containment of rural radicalism in Kenya. For the first time an account of decolonization in Kenya based on primary sources is offered to the reader. The Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, but the struggle for land rights was only contained in the post independence era of Kenya. Kikuyu squatters on European estates who formed the backbone of this movement are the main subject of this book. Furedi's account considers how the radicalization of rural protest in the so-called White Highlands led to the Mau Mau explosion and how it was sustained during the subsequent fifteen years. The book establishes a focus for discussion of these critical events through exploring the relationship between rural resistance and decolonization. The author argues that the main issue facing post-colonial policies in Kenya was to resolve the problems raised by the Mau Mau revolt. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a special emphasis on historical and political sociology, this book is aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt.

Author : Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000026360300

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Mau Mau by Robert B. Edgerton Pdf

Author : Robert Buijtenhuijs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Kenya
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037656480

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Essays on Mau Mau by Robert Buijtenhuijs Pdf