Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt
A Africa, History, Politics book. This book is quite an eye opener with respect to placing Kenya's revolution and independence in its historical context. I...
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 describes 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 post-colonial 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.
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This book is quite an eye opener with respect to placing Kenya's revolution and independence in its historical context. I learned quite a bit about the Mau Mau, particularly strategic and tactical errors they made as well as the way they influenced the coming players in post-colonial Kenya. Maloba also does an excellent job detailing... Provides an insight into the actions on the ground during the Mau Mau rebellion it appears that there has been a lot written on mau mau and it's importance to kenya's independence. also many on the left and right have projected ideological underpinnings to the movement. this books seems to try to get at the real motivations and organization of the movement and look at the rebellion through the framework of a peasant...
