kikuyu mau mau - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Mau Mau and the Kikuyu

Book by L. S. B. Leakey; Methuen, 1952

Subjects:

Kikuyu (African People), Mau Mau

Collections: History, Entire Library

MAU MAU AND THE KIKUYU By the same author THE...AND PROBLEMS WHITE AFRICAN MAU MAU AND THE KIKUYU L. S. B. Leakey METHUEN...grievances which underlie the Mau Mau movement. By Kikuyu law and custom, land occupied and...
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Defeating Mau Mau

Book by L. S. B. Leakey; Methuen, 1954

Subjects:

Kikuyu (African People), Mau Mau

Collections: History, Entire Library

...AND PROBLEMS WHITE AFRICAN MAU MAU AND THE KIKUYU ETC DEFEATING MAU MAU L...clear that for the majority of Kikuyu, Mau Mau was synonymous with K.A.U...had a very great appeal to the Kikuyu. Mau Mau religion therefore made use...
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The Mau Mau War in Perspective

Book by Frank Furedi; James Currey, 1989

Subjects:

Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960, Kikuyu (African People)--History, Mau Mau--History, Migrant Agricultural Laborers--Kenya--History--20th Century, Squatters--Kenya--History--20th Century

Collections: Entire Library

...as being the cause of Mau Mau. To the Kikuyu the agrarian problem is no...coherence and force. That Mau Mau was largely a Kikuyu affair has served as a justification...responses it provoked in Kikuyu society. Mau Mau was directed against the...
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Mau Mau from below

Book by Greet Kershaw; James Currey, 1997

Subjects:

Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960, Mau Mau--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

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.
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State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau

Book by Fred Majdalany; Houghton Mifflin, 1963

Subjects:

Mau Mau

Collections: History, Entire Library

...hunt. Three Mau Mau surrender to men of the Kikuyu Guard. Photograph...menfolk in the Kikuyu Guard. Photograph...Press Ltd. Mau Mau keep forest...eighty-three Kikuyu including Jomo...other suspected Mau Mau leaders...

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Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life History

Journal article by John Lonsdale; Africa, Vol. 71, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Mau Mau's Daughter: a life history (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...WAMBUI WAIYAKI OTIENO, Mau Maus Daughter: a life...gives voice to `the Kikuyu lady who was legally...Was he Maasai or Kikuyu, register against...to the young men of Mau Mau or a warning against...Gathecas powerful Kikuyu farming household...
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The Kenyan Government and the Kikuyu Independent Schools: From Attempted Control to Suppression, 1929-1952

Journal article by Theodore Natsoulas; The Historian, Vol. 60, 1998

Subjects:

Education and state--Kenya, Kenya--Schools, Kikuyu (African people)--Education

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...medium of the Kikuyu Independent Schools...believed that since Mau Mau aimed at the...context of the Mau Mau uprising. (1...Survival of the Kikuyu Independent Schools...Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from...and Growth of Mau Mau (London, 1960...
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A History of the Kikuyu Guard

Journal article by Pascal James Imperato; African Studies Review, Vol. 47, 2004

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...historiography of the Mau Mau movement among the Kikuyu of Kenya and the colonial...observed, a civil war among the Kikuyu themselves, as Mau Mau militants attacked loyalists...the focus of this volume. Kikuyu resistance to Mau Mau was motivated by several...
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Safari in the Age of Kenyatta

Journal article by Lawrence H. Martin; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 25, 2006

Subjects:

Hemingway, Ernest--Travel, Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Kenya--Description and travel, Kenya--Political aspects, Political movements--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...victims of the Mau Mau, but that the deaths of Kikuyu colonial loyalists...and the Roots of Mau Mau, explains that "land alienation among the Kikuyu," 8 ft. "Alienation...alliance with the Kikuyu Mau Mau but did not join...
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Hemingway's Truth and Tribal Politics

Journal article by Carl Eby; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 19, 1999

Subjects:

Autobiographies--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Editing--Evaluation, Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...TAFL 159). The Mau Mau uprising, an armed revolt primarily by Kikuyu peasants against British...concentration camp" (209). Mau Mau, in fact, was driven...Reserves and by what the Kikuyu considered the theft...colonial whites and the Kikuyu Mau Mau. As an honorary...

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Mau Mau - 30 Years Later

Magazine article by John Newsinger; Monthly Review, Vol. 37, May 1985

Subjects:

Kenya--History, Kenya--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...governments? The Mau Mau rebellion had...hunger of the Kikuyu peasantry. While...wrath of the Mau Mau was to descend on them. Many Kikuyu had abandoned...Mau. The Mau Mau proceeded to enroll...majority of the Kikuyu in its ranks...
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Ideology, Theory, and Revolution: Lessons from the Mau Mau of Kenya

Magazine article by Al-Amin Mazrui; Monthly Review, Vol. 39, September 1987

Subjects:

Colonies--History, Kenya--History, Peasant uprisings--Kenya, Revolutionaries--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Revolutionists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Entire Library

...history of the Mau Mau movement, to which...predominantly Kikuyu) Kenyans and rendered...what was the Mau Mau movement? It...structure of the Kikuyu Central Association...mounting. The Mau Mau movement was thus...predominantly Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru...
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Kenya: The Hola Massacre: On 3 March 1959, 11 Kenyas Were Bludgeoned to Death and Many More Were Maimed by British Colonial Forces at a Camp in Hola in the East Coast Province. President Mwai Kibaki's Government Has Now Cleared the Way for the British Government to Be Sued for Reparations. Wanjohi Kabukuru Traces the Systematic Torture That Was the Hallmakr of British Rule during the Mau Mau Years

Magazine article by Wanjohi Kabukuru; New African, December 2003

Subjects:

Terrorism, Terrorism--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...all night in the hut. "The Mau Mau may have been brutal," McGuffin continues...arisen of gained such a hold on the Kikuyu if the Kenyans had been allowed some...castrasion. "The treatment of the Mau Mau and the Kikuyu during and after the Emergency was...
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Kenya: From 'Terrorist' to National Hero

Magazine article by Wanjohi Kabukuru; New African, March 2007

Subjects:

Kenya--Military aspects, Kenya--Political aspects, Kimathi, Dedan--Appreciation, Kimathi, Dedan--Military aspects, Mau Mau--Military aspects, Revolutionaries--Appreciation, Revolutionaries--Military aspects, Revolutionists--Appreciation, Revolutionists--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...hosting her. The two books elicited great debate on the Mau Mau which is still a thorny and sensitive subject in Kenya today...school but he quit in 1951 and joined the military wing of the Kikuyu Central Association, called "Anaake a Forty" (the Forty Group...
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The British Tortured Obama's Grandfather: Today, the British Go Abroad to Preach Human Rights to Other Nations. but Not Too Long Ago, They Were Torturing Freedom Fighters All over Their Colonies in Africa, Including President Barack Obama's Kenyan Grandfather

Magazine article by Cameron Duodu; New African, February 2009

Subjects:

British colonialism--Military aspects, Indigenous peoples-government relations--Military aspects, Kenya--Social aspects, Mau Mau Uprising, 1952, Mutineers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Mutineers--Discipline, National liberation movements--Officials and employees, Obama, Barack--Family, Obama, Hussein Onyango--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Obama, Hussein Onyango--Discipline

Collections: Entire Library

...was a Luo, and not a Kikuyu, the ethnic group...along been that the Mau Mau freedom fighters were Kikuyu tribalists who wanted...killed, most of them Kikuyu. But Kenyans believe...propaganda claimed that the Mau Mau wanted to kill...

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Ambushed by the Bbc

Newspaper article by David Elstein; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 19, 2003

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcasting, Broadcasting industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the claims of some Kikuyu, the largest ethnic...officials during the Mau Mau crisis in the Fifties...demands among the Kikuyu for land reform and...commitment to Mau Mau, then you have to...I hired 200 young Kikuyu as a kind of Praetorian...
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How Colonial History Gets Distorted by Academic Fad

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mayhem needs a name: hence the term Mau Mau. What was Mau Mau? It was the name given by the British authorities to the...up suddenly in 1952 and appears to have derived from the Kikuyu word for an oath, the swearing of which was an integral part...
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My Father's Courage in Kenya Reduced Me to Tears; Man of Steel Reveals How He Broke Down While Revisiting African Home

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 13, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...his fathers brave stand during the Mau Mau emergency in Fifties Kenya, finally...visiting his fathers memorial stone at the Kikuyu mission station in Kenya while filming...David Steel, had saved lives during the Mau Mau emergency. He said: "I always knew something...
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RETRO REPORT-AUGUST, 1978:kenyatta's Death Stuns Africans

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 22, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...imprisoned by British authorities as a leader of the bloody Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s, was president of Kenya for nearly...Nairobi announced that Kenyatta - known as Burning Spear to his Kikuyu tribesman - died peacefully at his presidential residence...
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From Nazi Germany to Africa; Jewish Sisters Recall Kindness of Kenyans

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 22, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...eight years. Mrs. Katzenstein says the Kikuyu were a strong, intelligent people and...their arrival, they learned of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya and were shocked...freedom from British rule, members of the Kikuyu, Embu, Meru and Kamba tribes in Kenya...

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Mau Mau

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MAU MAU mou mou , secret...comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople. They...Kenya. In 1952 the Mau Mau began reprisals against...highlands," claimed as Kikuyu lands. The settlers...and non-participant Kikuyu were killed by the Mau Mau. Jomo Kenyatta...
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Kikuyu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1950s, under the leadership of Jomo Kenyatta , the Kikuyu fought the British colonialists in what was known as the Mau Mau Emergency. Although the Kikuyu traditionally lived in separate family homesteads...
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are accounts of the Mau Mau rebellion. Ngugi is particularly...Marry When I Want, 1982), in Kikuyu. The production was so popular among Kikuyu farmers and workers that the...release, he continued to write in Kikuyu and English. In 1982 he went...
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Kenya, Mount

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro. In the heart of Kikuyu country, Mt. Kenya was a focal point during the Mau Mau disturbances (1952 56). The Kikuyu, Meru, and Embu people cultivate Mt. Kenyas fertile...
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Kenyatta, Jomo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...political leader, first president of Kenya (1964 78). A Kikuyu, he was one of the earliest and best-known African nationalist...president of the Kenya African Union. In 1953, during the Mau Mau uprising, Kenyatta was imprisoned by the British as one...

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