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


Kenya Cowboy

Kenya Cowboy

Author: Peter Hewitt

Publisher: Covos Day

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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The revolt was regarded in its origins & development as wholly evil, yet Mau Mau insurgents became heroes & the day on which the state of emergency was declared is commemorated with pride. This text offers a balanced assessment of the implications.


Mau Mau's Daughter

Mau Mau's Daughter

Author: Wambui Waiyaki Otieno

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9781555877224

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The autobiography of a woman who was a Kenyan nationalist fighter for the Mau Maus and later politician in Nairobi. Descended from Maasai refugees, Kikuyu frontier settlers, and autochthonous Dorobo hunter-gatherers, she tells the story of her ancestors, her childhood, how she got involved in the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s, the later story of her involvement with the Kenya African National Union, her marriage to Nairobi lawyer Silvano Melea Otieno, and the controversy over his burial, which was the impetus for the writing of this book. 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.


Defeating Mau Mau

Defeating Mau Mau

Author: Louis Leakey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1136530738

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Many of the issues are still pertinent to other African countries in the 21st century e.g clear parallels with Zimbabwe


A Pied Cloak

A Pied Cloak

Author: Derek Peter Franklin

Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Lim

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1857562941

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Prior to and after Kenya's independence, this biography recounts a Kenyan police officer's daily experiences, including armed combat in the bush, the technical operations in Nairobi, and the battle of wits against the South African intelligence services in Lesotho and Botswana. Exploring the intrigue and brutality of the officer's position, the book provides insight into security force operations.


Colonial Kenya Observed

Colonial Kenya Observed

Author: S. H. Fazan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1350155365

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The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.


Britain's Gulag

Britain's Gulag

Author: Caroline Elkins

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2023-09-21

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1448162734

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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.


The Broken Word

The Broken Word

Author: Adam Foulds

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1101513489

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The stunning debut from "one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade." (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family's farm, rapidly becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region. The Broken Word was the recipient of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award, and Foulds's The Quickening Maze was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.