Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt

ISBN-13: 9780253211668 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str.

Wunyabari O. Maloba

Opis

..". 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..." 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 HistoryMau 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."