Defeating Mau Mau Creating Kenya

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 : 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 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 : Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 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 1954 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : 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 : Daniel Branch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180640
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya written by Daniel Branch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465463
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Oath written by Mickie Mwanzia Koster and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C Survey Ritual Analysis 2008 and Mungiki Survey Analysis 2011 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435204
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contested Lands of Laikipia written by Marie Ladekjær Gravesen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.