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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kershaw, Greet. Mau Mau from below. Oxford : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)605617360 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Greet Kershaw |
ISBN: | 0821411543 9780821411544 0821411551 9780821411551 0852557329 9780852557327 0852557310 9780852557310 |
OCLC Number: | 35305131 |
Description: | xxx, 354 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword / John Lonsdale -- 1. The Settlement of Kiambu until the Kirika Famine of 1835 -- 2. From Kirika until the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Land Ownership in the Twentieth Century -- 4. The Labour Market for the Local Population -- 5. Land, Labour & Living in the Colonial Era -- 6. Resistance of the Elders until the Beginning of Mau Mau -- 7. The Resistance of the Land Poor & Landless: The Beginning of Mau Mau -- 8. The Emergency, Marige & the End of Mau Mau -- App. I. Data, Reliability & Analysis -- App. II. Oral Traditions -- App. III. Notes on Kiambu Social Organization -- App. IV. Economic data -- App. V. Notes on the Kenya Land Commission Report -- App. VI. Notes on the Rift Valley. |
Series Title: | Eastern African studies (London, England) |
Responsibility: | Greet Kershaw. |
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... a unique account of Britain's most bloody war of decolonization... .More than any other writer on Mau Mau, Kershaw has captured and distilled its internecine complexity, in the process identifying why the wounds have taken so very long to heal... - David Anderson in THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ... This is a wonderful source book on Kikuyu political mythology and culture... - Frank Furedi in AFRICAN AFFAIRS ... Hers was unique, very difficult, even somewhat dangerous fieldwork and we are fortunate that her findings are at last available. As the distinguished historian of East Africa, John Lonsdale, argues in his excellent foreword, this is an invaluable document that no one interested in the history of East Africa can neglect. Here is an example of anthropological fieldwork that due to its late appearance is now itself a form of history. The copious detail of its material, the complex sagas related by the people in the two Kikuyu communities Kershaw studied, and, above all, the direct voices of these Kikuyus' testimonies and interviews make the harsh and tragic conditions of Kenya life in the colonial era intensely, richly vivid. ... [the] value of her work remains immense, especially since no comparable data of such richness can now ever be retrieved from anywhere else. ... - T.O. Beidelman in ANTHROPOS Read more...


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