Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization.
This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines...
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | African studies
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war
- Vomiting the oath : the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau
- Terror and counter-terror : March 1953-April 1954
- From Mau Mau to home guard : the defeat of the insurgency
- Loyalism, land, and labour : the path to self-mastery
- Loyalism in the age of decolonisation
- Eating the fruits of uhuru : loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state
- Conclusion : loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war.