Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya

Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9780429714221
ISBN-13 : 042971422X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya by : Cora Ann Presley

Based on rare oral data from women participants in the "Mau Mau" rebellion, this book chronicles changes in women's domestic reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that took place under colonial rule. The book links labour activism, cultural nationalism, and the more overtly political issues of land alienation, judicial control, and character

Images of Women in Peace and War

Images of Women in Peace and War
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0299117642
ISBN-13 : 9780299117641
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Images of Women in Peace and War by : Sharon Macdonald

As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women's participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women's participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women's position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of "peace," "war," and "gender."

Mau Mau from Below

Mau Mau from Below
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 0821411551
ISBN-13 : 9780821411551
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Mau Mau from Below by : Greet Kershaw

"This is the oral evidence of the Kikuyu villagers with whom Greet Kershaw lived as an aid worker during the Mau Mau 'Emergency' in the 1950s, and which is now totally irrecoverable in any form save in her own field notes. Professor Kershaw has uncovered long local histories of social tension which could have been revealed by no other means than patient enquiry, of both her neighbour's memory and government archives... Nobody, whether Kikuyu participant, Kenyan or European scholar, has provided such startlingly authoritative ethnographic insights into the values, fears and expectations of Kikuyu society and thus of the motivation of Kikuyu action... Her data suggests, as other scholars have also accepted, that there never was a single such movement and that none of its members, even those who supposed themselves to be its leaders, ever saw it whole, not because they did not have a political aim, but because that agenda was contested within different political circles over which they had no control and of which they may scarcely have had any knowledge. And why is this finding important? It is because others, including almost all the movement's enemies, did see Mau Mau whole in order to try to comprehend it, a first step towards defeating it."

Imperial Reckoning

Imperial Reckoning
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : 9781429900294
ISBN-13 : 1429900296
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Imperial Reckoning by : Caroline Elkins

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth- century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

Mau Mau's Daughter

Mau Mau's Daughter
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Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 1555877222
ISBN-13 : 9781555877224
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Mau Mau's Daughter by : Wambui Waiyaki Otieno

The autobiography of a woman who was a Kenyan nationalist fighter for the Mau Maus and later politician in Nairobi. Descended from Maasai refugees, Kikuyu frontier settlers, and autochthonous Dorobo hunter-gatherers, she tells the story of her ancestors, her childhood, how she got involved in the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s, the later story of her involvement with the Kenya African National Union, her marriage to Nairobi lawyer Silvano Melea Otieno, and the controversy over his burial, which was the impetus for the writing of this book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963

Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9783030176082
ISBN-13 : 3030176088
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963 by : Opolot Okia

This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor practices, various exemptions meant that many coercive labor practices continued in colonial territories. Focusing on East Africa and the Kenya Colony, this book shows how the colonial administration was able to exploit the exemption clause for communal labor, thus ensuring the mobilization of African labor for infrastructure development. As an exemption, communal labor was not defined as forced labor but instead justified as a continuation of traditional African and community labor practices. Despite this ideological justification, the book shows that communal labor was indeed an intensification of coercive labor practices and one that penalized Africans for non-compliance with fines or imprisonment. The use of forced labor before and after the passage of the Convention is examined, with a focus on its use during World War II as well as in efforts to combat soil erosion in the rural African reserve areas in Kenya. The exploitation of female labor, the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, civilian protests, and the regeneration of communal labor as harambee after independence are also discussed.

Britain's Gulag

Britain's Gulag
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 437
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ISBN-10 : 9781448162734
ISBN-13 : 1448162734
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Britain's Gulag by : Caroline Elkins

Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold. Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

From Mau Mau to Harambee

From Mau Mau to Harambee
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Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015037499475
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis From Mau Mau to Harambee by : Tom Askwith

Mau Mau Memoirs

Mau Mau Memoirs
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Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1555875378
ISBN-13 : 9781555875374
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Mau Mau Memoirs by : Marshall S. Clough

Clough (history, U. of Northern Colorado) analyzes 13 personal accounts by Kenyans in order to make a case for not only their historical value, but their role in the struggle to define the importance of Mau Mau within Kenyan historiography and politics. He argues that the recollections of the authors, whose experiences ranged from organizing the secret movement, to supplying the guerillas, to active fighting, to resistance in the British detention camps, serve to refute both the British and Kenyan versions of the revolt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In Resistance

In Resistance
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012844778
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Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis In Resistance by : Gary Y. Okihiro