Waruhiu Itote, nom de guerre General China, was one of the key leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya alongside Dedan Kimathi, Stanley Mathenge, Kurito ole Kisio, Musa Mwariama and Muthoni Kirima. Itote was the first senior Mau Mau leader to be captured by the government, when he fell into a trap in 1954.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Transafrica.

Year: 1979

Pages: 203

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 7:10 p.m.

The British captured extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau, which to this day have not been made public. Here for the first time, as a result of years of village - level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the movement's - and its leader, Dedan Kimathi's - most important papers. Translated in to English, they make startlingly clear movement's own perspectives on their struggle and its difficulties, the relatively advanced nature of their goals as a national liberation movement, and their radical visions of a liberated Kenyan society. Dedan Kimathi became President of Mau Mau's ruling body in August 1953 and remained its overall head until his capture and death two years later. He ordered the movement to keep documentation for the purpose of providing, as he put it, 'concentrate evidence that we fought and died for this land'. By recovering some of this material, Maina wa Kinyatti has done Kenyan history a signal service.

ISBN-13: 9781439226834

ISBN-10: 1439226830

Language: English

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2009

Pages: 158

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 7:08 p.m.

Anthony Clayton is a lecturer at the University of Surrey and was a Senior Lecturer at the R.M.A. Sandhurst. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Army and is holder of the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He is author of a number of books including Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18 (2003), The Wars of French Decolonisation (1994), The British Empire As a Superpower 1919-39 (1986) and France, Soldiers and Africa (1988).

ISBN-13: 9780897450614

ISBN-10: 0897450612

Language: English

Publisher: Transafrica Publishers

Year: 1976

Pages: 62

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 7:04 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780900966644

ISBN-10: 0900966645

Language: English

Publisher: Charles University

Year: 1970

Pages: 125

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 7:01 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780435917210

ISBN-10: 0435917218

Language: English

Publisher:

Year: 1985

Pages: 126

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 6:58 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Publishing House

Year: 1979

Pages: 328

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 6:53 p.m.

Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

ISBN-13: 9780852550694

ISBN-10: 0852550693

Language: English

Publisher: James Currey

Year: 1990

Pages: 479

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 3:25 p.m.

Mau Mau and Kenya widens the debate about the Mau Mau revolt and adds an African voice to the examination and interpretation of an important event in African history. Wunyabari Maloba traces this unique peasant revolt against British colonialism offering a fresh look at a movement that has been "reinvented" by ideologues on the Left and Right in postcolonial Kenya. Was Mau Mau a national effort or an ethnic outburst? What were its political aims? Maloba describes the Mau Mau legacy, concentrating on three issues: 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. Maloba argues that Mau Mau's various factions disagreed over aims and objectives, and that this lack of a cohesive revolutionary ideology influenced the shape and destiny of the revolt. He compares Mau Mau, as an anti-colonial peasant movement, to European and Third World revolutionary movements. In placing the Mau Mau rebellion within the framework of theoretical debates about social movements, Maloba demonstrates that its aim, like that of other peasant revolts, was the overthrow of colonial domination and the attainment of national independence. Mau Mau and Kenya makes a significant contribution to postwar Kenyan historiography.

ISBN-13: 9780253336644

ISBN-10: 0253336643

Language: English

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Year: 1993

Pages: 228

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 3:19 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Kenya Literature Bureau

Year: 1975

Pages: 206

Cataloged: Nov. 13, 2024, 3:11 p.m.