Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya
Author: Daniel Branch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521130905

This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion. Moreover, the book moves toward a more nuanced understanding of the realities and effects of counterinsurgency warfare. Based on archival research in Kenya and the United Kingdom and insights from literature from across the social sciences, the book reconstructs the dilemmas facing members of society at war with itself and its colonial ruler.

Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya

Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya
Author: Myles Osborne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107061040

This work analyses the ethnicity in Kenya over the past two hundred years, focusing on the Kamba ethnic group that inhabits eastern Kenya.

From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures

From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures
Author: Hiroyuki Hino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108476600

Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.

The Power of the Oath

The Power of the Oath
Author: Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580465463

C Survey Ritual Analysis 2008 and Mungiki Survey Analysis 2011 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Kenya

Kenya
Author: Daniel Branch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300180640

On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people's dream remains elusive. During its first five decades Kenya has experienced assassinations, riots, coup attempts, ethnic violence, and political corruption. The ranks of the disaffected, the unemployed, and the poor have multiplied. In this authoritative and insightful account of Kenya's history from 1963 to the present day, Daniel Branch sheds new light on the nation's struggles and the complicated causes behind them.Branch describes how Kenya constructed itself as a state and how ethnicity has proved a powerful force in national politics from the start, as have disorder and violence. He explores such divisive political issues as the needs of the landless poor, international relations with Britain and with the Cold War superpowers, and the direction of economic development. Tracing an escalation of government corruption over time, the author brings his discussion to the present, paying particular attention to the rigged election of 2007, the subsequent compromise government, and Kenya's prospects as a still-evolving independent state.

Power and the Presidency in Kenya

Power and the Presidency in Kenya
Author: Anaïs Angelo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108494048

The first study to use Jomo Kenyatta's political biography and presidency as a basis for examining the colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya.

Britain's Gulag

Britain's Gulag
Author: Caroline Elkins
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1448162734

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 Contested Lands of Laikipia

The Contested Lands of Laikipia
Author: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004435204

Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.

Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940-93

Decolonization & Independence in Kenya, 1940-93
Author: Bethwell A. Ogot
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995
Genre: Decolonization
ISBN: 9780821410516

This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. At the same time the book is a courageous reflection in the dilemmas of African nationhood. Professor B. A. Ogot says: "The main purpose of the book is to show that decolonization does not only mean the transfer of alien power to sovereign nationhood; it must also entail the liberation of the worlds of spirit and culture, as well as economics and politics. "The book also raises a more fundamental question, that is: How much independence is available to any state, national economy or culture in today's world? It asks how far are Africa's miseries linked to the colonial past and to the process of decolonization? "In particular the book raises the basic question of how far Kenya is avoidably neo-colonial? And what does neo-colonial dependence mean? The book answers these questions by discussing the dynamic between the politics of decolonization, the social history of class formation and the economics of dependence. The book ends with a provocative epilogue discussing the transformation of the post-colonial state from a single-party to a multi-party system."