Mau Mau & nationhood : arms, authority & narration

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Mau Mau & nationhood : arms, authority & narration

edited by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo, John Lonsdale

（Eastern African studies）

James Currey , EAEP , Ohio University Press, 2003

  • : J. Currey : cloth
  • : J. Currey : pbk
  • : Ohio Univ. Press : cloth
  • : Ohio Univ. Press : pbk

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Volume

: Ohio Univ. Press : pbk ISBN 9780821414842

Description

Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency, Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. Mau Mau and Nationhood is a collection of essays providing the most recent thinking on the uprising and its aftermath. The work of well-established scholars as well as of young researchers with fresh perspectives, Mau Mau and Nationhood achieves a multilayered analysis of a subject of enduring interest. According to Terence Ranger, Emeritus Rhodes Professor, Oxford, "In some ways the historiography of Mau Mau is a supreme example not only of ambiguity and complexity, but also of redemption of a topic once thought incapable of rational analysis."
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: J. Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852554784

Description

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

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Mau Mau & nationhood: the untold story by Bethwell A. Ogot
  • Matunda ya uhuru
  • fruits of independence: on nationalism in Kenya by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
  • Authority, gender & violence: the war within Mau Mau's fight for land & freedom by John Lonsdale
  • Writing in revolution: independent schooling and Mau Mau in Nyeri by Derek Peterson
  • Complementary or contending nationhoods? Kikuyu pamphlets & songs, 1945-52 by Christiana Pugliese
  • Mau Mau & the arming of the state by David A. Percox
  • The battle of Dundora Swamp: reconstructing the Kenya Land & Freedom Army, October 1954 by David M. Anderson
  • 'Impossible to ignore their greatness': survival craft in the Mau Mau Forest Movement by Kennell Jackson, Jr.
  • Detention, rehabilitation & the destruction of Kikuyu society by Caroline Elkins - 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a Mau Mau': the British popular press & the demoralisation of empire by Joanna Lewis
  • Mau Mau & the contest for memory by Marshall S. Clough
  • The nation & narration: 'The truths of the nation' and the changing image of Mau Mau in Kenyan literature by James Ogude
  • Bibliography
Volume

: J. Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852554845

Description

Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. More than fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency the significance of Mau Mau is still debated. This collection combines retrospective overviews with research to achieve a multi-layered analysis of this topic. According to Professor Terence Ranger, Emeritus Rhodes Prfessor of Race Relations, University of Oxford: 'In some ways the historiography of Mau Mau is a supreme example not only of ambiguity and complexity but also of redemption of a topic that was once thought incapable of rational analysis.' North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Mau Mau & nationhood: the untold story by Bethwell A. Ogot
  • Matunda ya uhuru
  • fruits of independence: on nationalism in Kenya by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
  • Authority, gender & violence: the war within Mau Mau's fight for land & freedom by John Lonsdale
  • Writing in revolution: independent schooling and Mau Mau in Nyeri by Derek Peterson
  • Complementary or contending nationhoods? Kikuyu pamphlets & songs, 1945-52 by Christiana Pugliese
  • Mau Mau & the arming of the state by David A. Percox
  • The battle of Dundora Swamp: reconstructing the Kenya Land & Freedom Army, October 1954 by David M. Anderson
  • 'Impossible to ignore their greatness': survival craft in the Mau Mau Forest Movement by Kennell Jackson, Jr.
  • Detention, rehabilitation & the destruction of Kikuyu society by Caroline Elkins - 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a Mau Mau': the British popular press & the demoralisation of empire by Joanna Lewis
  • Mau Mau & the contest for memory by Marshall S. Clough
  • The nation & narration: 'The truths of the nation' and the changing image of Mau Mau in Kenyan literature by James Ogude
  • Bibliography

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