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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.
Author | : Josiah Mwangi Kariuki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Kenya |
ISBN | : |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Caroline Elkins |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429900296 |
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.