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9780821414842

Mau Mau and Nationhood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780821414842

  • ISBN10:

    0821414844

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-01
  • Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

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Summary

Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. This new collection combines retrospective overviews with fresh research to achieve a multi-layered analysis of an enduring topic. Book jacket.

Author Biography

E. S. Atieno Odhiambo is Professor of History at Rice University, Texas John Lonsdale is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributorsp. ix
Terms & Abbreviationsp. xi
Mapsp. xiii
Introductionp. 1
Mau Mau & Nationhood: The untold storyp. 8
Matunda ya Uhuru, Fruits of Independence: Seven theses on nationalism in Kenyap. 37
Authority, Gender & Violence: The war within Mau Mau's fight for land & freedomp. 46
Writing in Revolution: Independent schooling & Mau Mau in Nyerip. 76
Complementary or Contending Nationhoods? Kikuyu pamphlets & songs, 1945-52p. 97
Mau Mau & the Arming of the Statep. 121
The Battle of Dandora Swamp: Reconstructing the Mau Mau Land Freedom Army October 1954p. 155
'Impossible to Ignore their Greatness': Survival craft in the Mau Mau forest movementp. 176
Detention, Rehabilitation & the Destruction of Kikuyu Societyp. 191
'Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Mau Mau': The British popular press & the demoralization of empirep. 227
Mau Mau & the Contest for Memoryp. 251
The Nation & Narration: 'The truths of the nation' & the changing image of Mau Mau in Kenyan literaturep. 268
Select Bibliographyp. 284
Indexp. 299
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