Rethinking The Mau Mau In Colonial Kenya

Author : S. Alam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230606997
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya written by S. Alam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective.

Author : S. Alam
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403983749
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya written by S. Alam and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective.

Author : S. H. Fazan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737848
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Kenya Observed written by S. H. Fazan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.

Author : G. Horne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230339026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mau Mau in Harlem? written by G. Horne and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya.

Author : Wunyabari O. Maloba
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966467638
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mau Mau and Kenya written by Wunyabari O. Maloba and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". an up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible single-volume text to introduce the Mau Mau movement and its part in Kenya's nationalism and independence..."A -- International Journal of African Historical Studies "Mau Mau and Kenya is a well written work which provides a clear and candid picture of the highly complex movements that were Mau Mau." -- African History Mau Mau and Kenya traces a unique peasant revolt against British colonialism. Was Mau Mau a national effort or an ethnic outburst? What were its political aims? Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya African Union; and the impact of Mau Mau on decolonization in Kenya.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mau Mau Rebellion written by Hourly History and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable history of the Mau Mau Rebellion...The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With a complicated story, it can be difficult to place the Mau Mau Uprising within the larger history of Kenyan nationalism and nationhood. Regardless of nuance, though, its importance in the history of Kenya, Africa, and British colonialism cannot be understated. This is the complete history of the Mau Mau Rebellion. Discover a plethora of topics such as Background and Causes The Desire for Freedom The British Respond: Operation Anvil Brutality and War Crimes The End of the Rebellion Legacy And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Mau Mau Rebellion, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!

Author : W. O. Maloba
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319508954
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenyatta and Britain written by W. O. Maloba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta’s formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British intelligence services and Kenyatta’s career and the political compromise he forged between Kenya and Britain. This book draws on primary sources to analyze this compromise, which marked his transformation from "leader to darkness and death" to the most beloved post-colonial African leader in the West.

Author : Karari Njama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988832593
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mau Mau From Within written by Karari Njama and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mau Mau from Within is told by Karari Njama, a school teacher who was directly involved in the struggles for freedom from colonial rule, to anthropologist Donald L Barnett. As the late Basil Davidson put it: "Njama writes of the forest leaders' efforts to overcome dissension, to evolve effective tactics, to keep discipline (including sexual discipline) and mete out justice ... His narrative is crowded with excitement. Those who know much of Africa and those who know little will alike find it compulsive reading. Some 10,000 Africans died fighting in those years . Here, in the harsh detail of everyday experience, are the reasons why." Originally published as Mau Mau From Within: An analysis of Kenya's Peasant Revolt, it is a story of courage, passion, heroism, combined with recounting of colonial terror, brutality and betrayal. Far from being just an analysis of a peasant revolt, this is the inside story of the struggles of Kenya's Land and Freedom Army told from within by a person who worked closely with Dedan Kimathi. This new expanded edition includes new commentary by Karari Njama, and contributions from Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Micere Githae Mugo as well as a statement from Gitu Wa Kahengeri, Secretary General of the Mau Mau War Veterans Association.

Author : Caroline Elkins
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162734
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Gulag written by Caroline Elkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Mwenda Kithinji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113755830X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya After 50 written by Michael Mwenda Kithinji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963. It seeks to advance understanding of the country's major milestones in the postcolonial period, the challenges and the lessons that can be learned from this experience, and the future prospects.