Mau Mau From Within

Mau Mau From Within

Author: Karari Njama

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-16

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781988832593

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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.


Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya

Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya

Author: S. Alam

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230606997

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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.


Mau Mau and Kenya

Mau Mau and Kenya

Author: Wunyabari O. Maloba

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780852557457

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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


Mau Mau in Harlem?

Mau Mau in Harlem?

Author: G. Horne

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0230101046

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Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya.


Fighting the Mau Mau

Fighting the Mau Mau

Author: Huw C. Bennett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107029708

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


Mau Mau Memoirs

Mau Mau Memoirs

Author: Marshall S. Clough

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781555875374

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Clough (history, U. of Northern Colorado) analyzes 13 personal accounts by Kenyans in order to make a case for not only their historical value, but their role in the struggle to define the importance of Mau Mau within Kenyan historiography and politics. He argues that the recollections of the authors, whose experiences ranged from organizing the secret movement, to supplying the guerillas, to active fighting, to resistance in the British detention camps, serve to refute both the British and Kenyan versions of the revolt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Mau Mau & Nationhood

Mau Mau & Nationhood

Author: E. S. Atieno Odhiambo

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780852554845

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Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.


Mau Mau’s Children

Mau Mau’s Children

Author: David P. Sandgren

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0299287831

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In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of post colonial elites. In Mau Mau’s Children, Sandgren has reconnects with these former students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first postcolonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews, Mau Mau’s Children shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu ethnicity on his students' path to success.