Defeating Mau Mau

Author : Louis Leakey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136530800
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeating Mau Mau written by Louis Leakey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521130905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya written by Daniel Branch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Seymour Bazett Leakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeating Mau Mau written by Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis S. B. Leakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeating Mau Mau written by Louis S. B. Leakey and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521113823
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya written by Daniel Branch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : L. S. B. Leakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758182517
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeating Mau Mau written by L. S. B. Leakey and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Greet Kershaw
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821411551
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mau Mau from Below written by Greet Kershaw and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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. Professor Kershaw has uncovered long local histories of social tension which could have been revealed by no other means than patient enquiry, of both her neighbour's memory and government archives... Nobody, whether Kikuyu participant, Kenyan or European scholar, has provided such startlingly authoritative ethnographic insights into the values, fears and expectations of Kikuyu society and thus of the motivation of Kikuyu action... Her data suggests, as other scholars have also accepted, that there never was a single such movement and that none of its members, even those who supposed themselves to be its leaders, ever saw it whole, 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. And why is this finding important? It is because others, including almost all the movement's enemies, did see Mau Mau whole in order to try to comprehend it, a first step towards defeating it."

Author : Louis Leakey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136531017
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Myles Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316061639
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya written by Myles Osborne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David F. Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429711808
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonization And The State In Kenya written by David F. Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author examines the efforts of the colonial regime to shape the process of decolonization in Kenya from the end of World War II until independence in 1963, focusing on the conflict between the state’s two imperatives–promoting economic development and establishing and maintaining control. Dr. Gordon reviews the different political