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Book Synopsis Mau Mau from Below by : Greet Kershaw
Download or read book Mau Mau from Below written by Greet Kershaw and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is based on the oral evidence of the Kikuya villagers with whom the author lived as an aid worker during the Mau Mau emergency in the 1950s. The data suggests that there was never a single Mau Mau movement, and that none of its members ever saw it as such, not because they did not have a political aim, but because that agenda was contested within different political circles over which they had no control and of which they may scarcely have had any knowledge. This importance of this is that almost all the enemies of the Mau Mau did see it as a whole movement, in order to try and comprehend it and defeat it.
Book Synopsis Mau Mau & Nationhood by : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Download or read book Mau Mau & Nationhood written by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.
Book Synopsis Mau Mau and Kenya by : Wunyabari O. Maloba
Download or read book Mau Mau and Kenya written by Wunyabari O. Maloba and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by : Tom Wolfe
Download or read book Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program's money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.
Book Synopsis Mau Mau Crucible of War by : Nicholas K. Githuku
Download or read book Mau Mau Crucible of War written by Nicholas K. Githuku and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalité of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the evolution of the Kenyan state, but also, the state in Africa. It not only engages historians of colonial and postcolonial economic and political history, but also sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and those who study personality and social branches of psychology, postcolonialism and postmodernity, social movements, armed conflict specialists, and conflict resolution analysts.
Download or read book The Last Mau Mau written by David Njagi and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Mau Mau to Harambee by : Tom Askwith
Download or read book From Mau Mau to Harambee written by Tom Askwith and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Controversial Chiefs in Colonial Kenya by : Evanson N. Wamagatta
Download or read book Controversial Chiefs in Colonial Kenya written by Evanson N. Wamagatta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung’u is one of colonial Kenya’s most controversial chiefs. His name has gone down in history as a traitor who was assassinated because he sold his country to the British colonizers. This book is the untold story of the controversial life of Senior Chief Waruhiu who served the colonial government for thirty years. He believed his white superiors’ authority was God-given and to disobey them was tantamount to disobeying God himself. That was why he was considered loyal, obedient, dependable, responsible, efficient, and a tower of strength. Chief Waruhiu’s violent death dealt his reputation a devastating blow, as it provided his critics with a basis to portray him as a traitor who sold out to the colonizers. Although Waruhiu believed that the Africans were not yet ready for self-government—and that they could not attain it through violence—that did not make him a traitor. Other chiefs also believed that and yet were not labeled as traitors. However, this did lead to him being considered a very pro-government and pro-European chief who was opposed to the aspirations of his people and he, as a result, deserved to be killed. Although it is believed that Waruhiu was killed by Mau Mau, there is no evidence to support that claim. The white settler community gained a lot from Waruhiu’s murder as it paved the way for it to get what it had been demanding for a long time—a declaration of a state of emergency and the arrest and detention of African leaders. It is very likely that some leaders of the white settlers, working together with government officials, were probably behind Waruhiu’s murder. The police, the prosecution, and the court seemed determined to make the murder charges against the accused suspects stick in spite of glaring discrepancies and contradictions in the evidence against them. Above all, the prosecution failed to prove beyond any reasonable doubts that Waweru and Gathuku killed Waruhiu. Thus, the mystery of who killed Waruhiu and those behind his murder still remains unresolved and the perpetrators of the murder may never be known.
Book Synopsis Peaceful Resistance by : Robert M. Press
Download or read book Peaceful Resistance written by Robert M. Press and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study that examines how peaceful, domestic tactics by individual human rights activists and organizational activists, with public support, can force an authoritarian regime to make key concessions. Robert Press explores the creation and impact of a culture of resistance. He examines how domestic pressure can be more important than foreign pressure for political reform, especially in underdeveloped, authoritarian states. This study of contemporary Kenya fills a gap in traditional social movement theory to show how a resistance movement actually starts. Contrary to long-dominant theory, the book shows how the initiative for such a movement can come from activists themselves in the face of severe obstacles in society. With its unique findings on the effects of individual activism and peaceful resistance, this book will attract a broad audience in the study and practice of international relations, comparative politics, sociology, interest groups, peace and conflict, and human rights.
Book Synopsis Mau Mau and the Kikuyu by : Louis Leakey
Download or read book Mau Mau and the Kikuyu written by Louis Leakey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Imperial Reckoning by : Caroline Elkins
Download or read book Imperial Reckoning written by Caroline Elkins and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mau Mau's Daughter by : Wambui Waiyaki Otieno
Download or read book Mau Mau's Daughter written by Wambui Waiyaki Otieno and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Mukami Kimathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter by : Nderitu, Wairimu
Download or read book Mukami Kimathi: Mau Mau Woman Freedom Fighter written by Nderitu, Wairimu and published by Mdahalo Bridging Divides. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Fighting the Mau Mau by : Huw C. Bennett
Download or read book Fighting the Mau Mau written by Huw C. Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.
Book Synopsis Trapped in History by : Nicholas Rankin
Download or read book Trapped in History written by Nicholas Rankin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the guerrilla freedom fighters known as Mau Mau. Though defeated, the Mau Mau hastened the end of British rule in Kenya. Trapped in History explores the effect the uprising on the author, who grew up as a child in the Kenya colony. The book is both a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire.
Book Synopsis Social Transnationalism by : Steffen Mau
Download or read book Social Transnationalism written by Steffen Mau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-states is fading, and this is reflected not only in new forms of governance and economic globalization, but also in individual mobility and transnational transactions, affiliations and networks. Social Transnationalism explores new forms of cross-border interactions and mobility which have expanded across physical space by looking at the individual level. It asks whether we are dealing with unbridled movements and cross-border interactions which transform the lifeworlds of individuals fundamentally. Furthermore, it investigates whether, and to what degree, increases in the volume of transnational interactions weaken the individual citizen's bond to the nation-state as such, and to what extent citizens' national identities are being replaced or complemented by cosmopolitan ones
Download or read book The Mzungu Boy written by Meja Mwangi and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Children's Africana Book Award - Best Book for Older Readers For young Kariuki, life in a small village in central Kenya is one great adventure. And when he meets Nigel life becomes even more interesting. Nigel is from England and he has come to visit his great grandfather, the fearsome Bwana Ruin who owns the farm where all the villagers work. The villagers call Nigel the mzungu boy, and they view him with suspicion and fear. Nevertheless, Kariuki becomes friends with Nigel and the two spend happy days exploring the forest together. Then one day the two boys decide to hunt down Old Moses, the biggest, ugliest, oldest and meanest warthog in the forest. The hunt takes them deeper into the jungle than Kariuki has ever gone, and his beloved forest becomes a frightening place, filled with dangerous creatures, including the Mau-mau, the mysterious men who have guns and are plotting against Bwana Ruin and the white soldiers. And when Nigel suddenly disappears, Kariuki realizes that it is up to him to save his friend.
