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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

...widely held by loyal Kikuyu that Mau Mau is only another...approach really loyal Kikuyu and ask them to take the Mau Mau oath, for they...number of discontented Kikuyu among the squatters on European farms, the Mau Mau movement, from...
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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

VIII MAU MAU AND OTHER TRIBES As I said in my earlier book, Mau Mau and the Kikuyu , Mau Mau was virtually the same as the earlier Kikuyu Central Association, which was finally banned in 1941. I...
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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

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...view the non-tribalist dimension of Mau Mau is shown by the different responses it provoked in Kikuyu society. Mau Mau was directed against the Kikuyu establishment as well as against colonial rule, and to a limited extent had the character of...
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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

...Institutions London: OUP, 1956. Lavers, Anthony, The Kikuyu who Fight Mau Mau , Nairobi: Eagle Press, 1955. Leakey, L. S. B., Mau Mau and the Kikuyu , London: Methuen, 1952. Defeating Mau Mau...
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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

...March at an unoccupied farmhouse on the forest fringe. Mau Mau leaders were told that Government representatives would...of all these and other attempts to negotiate with the Kikuyu that Mau Mau representatives had been within 200 yards of the...

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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

...modern Kenyan history. Was he Maasai or Kikuyu, register against or collaborator...an inspiration to the young men of Mau Mau or a warning against the futility of...refugees, adopted into Gathecas powerful Kikuyu farming household in the mid-nineteenth...
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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: Education, History, Entire Library

...favorable medium of the Kikuyu Independent Schools...rulers believed that since Mau Mau aimed at the political...within the context of the Mau Mau uprising. (1) See A...Factor in the Survival of the Kikuyu Independent Schools Movement...
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The Kamba and Mau Mau: Ethnicity, Development, and Chiefship, 1952-1960*

Journal article by Myles Osborne; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2010

Subjects:

Ethnicity, Political representation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...certainly outgunned, the largely Kikuyu Mau Mau was fighting hard and with success...Mau took root. It was typical for Kikuyu Mau Mau to stow away on trains leaving...order to keep Kamba Mau Mau away from Kikuyu Mau Mau, leading to a separate system...
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If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them: Government Cleansings of Witches and Mau Mau in 1950s Kenya

Journal article by Katherine Luongo; History In Africa, Vol. 33, 2006

Collections: History, Entire Library

...secrecy. As noted above, colonial discourse about Mau Mau among Kikuyu drew strong connections between Mau Mau and the subversion...but also concentrated on the killing capacity of Kikuyu Mau Mau oaths.24 It is not surprising then that British...
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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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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

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...all night in the hut. "The Mau Mau may have been brutal," McGuffin...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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Mau Mau - 30 Years Later

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

Subjects:

Kenya--History, Kenya--Political aspects

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...Much of the wrath of the Mau Mau was to descend on them. Many Kikuyu had abandoned the Reserves...to the Mau Mau. The Mau Mau proceeded to enroll the overwhelming majority of the Kikuyu in its ranks. Increasingly...
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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: History, Entire Library

...2 But what was the Mau Mau movement? It was a culmination...organizational structure of the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA...diaspora, was mounting. The Mau Mau movement was thus giving...thousands of predominantly Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru Africans...
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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

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...is that Obamas grandfather was a Luo, and not a Kikuyu, the ethnic group that spearheaded the Kenyan freedom...struggle. The British line has all along been that the Mau Mau freedom fighters were Kikuyu tribalists who wanted to drive away both whites...
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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

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...Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi, the legendary commander of the Mau Mau freedom fighters in Kenya, was called a terrorist by the...the whereabouts of Mrs Mukami Kimathi, the widow of the Mau Mau commander, Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi. Mandela also...

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How My Mother's Courage Saved Us from the Mau Mau

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 20, 2011

Subjects:

Mau Mau, Soldiers--Personal narratives

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

...My Mothers Courage Saved Us from the Mau Mau. HOW true it is that the victor writes...Im reminded of this by the news that Kikuyu elders are trying to claim compensation from the British Government for the Mau Mau atrocities in Kenya. They plead...
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How My Mother's Courage Saved Us from the Mau Mau

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 20, 2011

Subjects:

Mau Mau, Soldiers--Personal narratives

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

...My Mothers Courage Saved Us from the Mau Mau. HOW true it is that the victor writes...Im reminded of this by the news that Kikuyu elders are trying to claim compensation from the British Government for the Mau Mau atrocities in Kenya. They plead...
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Crossing the Forest Verge, I Entered the Twilight World of the Mau Mau Where Different Rules Applied. as a Group of Mau Mau Veterans Go to Court to Claim the UK Government Infringed Their Human Rights, One Man Who Fought against Them in a Brutal Campaign, Tells His Own Astonishing Story

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 7, 2010

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

...height. The Mau Mau were rebels against...were drawn from the Kikuyu, Kenyas biggest...days of Empire. The Kikuyu members of the Mau Mau knew every inch...minute later two Kikuyu came in and were introduced as former Mau Mau. Theyd been...
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Why Aren't the Mau Mau Butchers Also in the Dock?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 12, 2011

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

...stand accused of. Recruitment to the Mau Mau began with bloodshed as whole villages...part of the process. Preying on the Kikuyu peoples religious superstitions in...Christian, was forced to watch as a Mau Mau gang slowly strangled his best...
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Obama and the Myths about British 'Brutality'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 23, 2010

Subjects:

Mau Mau

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

...highly unlikely Mr Obama involved himself with Mau Mau, a purely Kikuyu-speaking organisation, as Mr Obama came from...in putting down the organisation and even many Kikuyu were against Mau Mau. In the Lari Massacre, a large Mau Mau gang...

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Mau Mau

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

MAU MAU mou mou , secret insurgent organization in Kenya , comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople. They were bound by oath...settlers retaliated and non-participant Kikuyu were killed by the Mau Mau. Jomo Kenyatta and other nationalist...
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Kikuyu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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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Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the son of missionary parents, grew up among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. After studying at Cambridge, he...include The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony (1931), Mau Mau and the Kikuyu (1952), and Adams Ancestors (4th ed. 1953; repr...
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Nairobi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Nairobi became the center of the prosperous European-dominated highlands farming area. In the 1950s the Mau Mau insurgency flared among Kikuyu people near Nairobi; there were related disturbances in the city. Nairobi Univ., Kenyatta Univ...
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Kenya, Mount

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...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...

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