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Author | : Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415329927 |
This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau movement, its propaganda, the nature of its religious aspects and its oaths and the mistakes its leaders made.
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 | : Louis S. B. Leakey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1953 |
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Author | : L. S. B. Leakey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780758182517 |
Author | : Daniel Branch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2009-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521113823 |
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 | : Louis Leakey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136531017 |
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.
Author | : Josiah Mwangi Kariuki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Kenya |
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Author | : Myles Osborne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316061639 |
This book is about the creation and development of ethnic identity among the Kamba. Comprising approximately one-eighth of Kenya's population, the British considered the Kamba East Africa's premier 'martial race' by the mid-twentieth century: a people with an apparent aptitude for soldiering. The reputation, indeed, was one that Kamba leaders used to leverage financial rewards from the colonial state. However, beneath this simplistic exterior was a maelstrom of argument and debate. Men and women, young and old, Christians and non-Christians, and the elite and poor fought over the virtues they considered worthy of honor in their communities, and which of their visions should constitute 'Kamba' identity. Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews, Ethnicity and Empire is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering, 'loyalty', martial race, and indeed the nature of empire itself.
Author | : Greet Kershaw |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780821411544 |
This is the oral evidence of the Kikuyu villagers with whom Greet Kershaw lived as an aid worker during the Mau Mau "Emergency" in the 1950s, and which is now totally irrecoverable in any form save in her own field notes.
Author | : Louis Leakey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136530800 |
The second of two important books by Louis Leakey, the renowned expert on the Kikuyu tribe. This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau movement, its propaganda, the nature of its religious aspects and its oaths and the mistakes its leaders made as well as covering chapters on necessary reforms to prevent further outbreaks of a similar nature.