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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

...evidence, and imprisoned for managing Mau Mau. Kenyatta and his henchmen was a common British...even when removed from the scene Kenyatta was still omnipotent. After his imprisonment Mau Mau, until it was defeated, grew
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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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...of colonialism. The post-independence governments of Kenya have also sought to bury Mau Mau. The Kenyatta regime, composed of politicians hostile to Mau Mau, tried to portray the revolt as a relatively minor episode. Kenyatta himself took...
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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

...supposedly chosen leaders of the tribe, the leaders of Mau Mau, with Jomo Kenyatta taking the place of Jesus Christ. Many of the preachers...A. political cause, and, by easy stages, to Mau Mau as a religion. Then they preached sermons and...
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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

...unanimity of opinion that the instigators of Mau Mau are the leaders of KAU although some of the leaders...would arrest under emergency powers eighty-three Mau Mau suspects including Jomo Kenyatta and other leaders. To be ready for any reaction...
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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

...majority of the Kikuyu regard the Mau Mau Association as nothing more than the...banning of the Association and the new Mau Mau oath. Moreover, the leaders of the...the old name at the time when Jomo Kenyatta, the former General Secretary of...

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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

...an inspiration to the young men of Mau Mau or a warning against the futility...Kenyas divisively ethnocratic rulers. Kenyatta, she suggests, hoped to borrow Waiyakis...him as their authority in the era of Mau Mau. The second past related here...
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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

...which had been run by Mau Mau militants since 195 1...later arrested with Jomo Kenyatta as part of the "Kapenguria...success in its recruitment Mau Mau and KAU had quickly realized...Other members of KAU such as Kenyatta and Fred Kubai also spoke...
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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

...for their safari, Jomo Kenyatta, the future president of...charged with inciting the Mau Mau uprising that had been...Economic Social Origins of Mau Mau 1945-53. London: James...Jeremy Murray-Browns Kenyatta includes a lengthy excerpt...
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The Labors of Muigwithania: Jomo Kenyatta as Author, 1928-45

Journal article by Bruce J. Berman, John M.Lonsdale; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 29, 1998

Subjects:

Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Johnstone Kamau, he acquired the name Kenyatta c. 1920, after his beaded belt...years with Greet Kershaw , whose Mau Mau from Below is essential reading...Moral Economy"332-50. 6. As Kenyatta admitted in Facing Mount Kenya 174...
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The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in Retrospect

Journal article by Ama Biney; The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online), Vol. 2, 2008

Collections: History, Entire Library

...news and their nationalist leaders, Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta became household names. Nkrumah became a disciple...diametrically opposed to the armed struggle of the Mau Mau, which Kenyatta was erroneously associated with. These antithetical...

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Mau Mau Ever-Present Past

Magazine article by Mukoma Wa Ngugi; New African, August 2009

Subjects:

British colonialism--Ethical aspects, Ex-presidents--Powers and duties, Kenya--Social aspects, Kenyans--Crimes against, Kenyatta, Jomo--Powers and duties, Mau Mau Uprising, 1952, Political atrocities--Social aspects

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...Kenyans--certainly not for the Mau Mau veterans. President Jomo Kenyatta, even before being sworn in...1963, had denounced the Mau Mau as terrorists. Contrary to British propaganda, Kenyatta was never a member of the Mau...
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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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...independence. The Mau Mau movement had to...important was Jomo Kenyatta, the leader of...including Jomo Kenyatta. By the middle...Baring hoped that Mau Mau could be suppressed...believed that Kenyatta was the leader...case: in fact Mau Mau gunmen were...
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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

...and Revolution: Lessons from the Mau Mau of Kenya. by Al-Amin Mazrui IDEOLOGY...should have openly come out in support of Kenyatta when a plot to overthrow him was unearthed...theoretical foundation on the part of the Mau Mau fighters in their quest for freedom...
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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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...independence, President Jomo Kenyatta (the first president of...had curtly declared the "Mau Mau a disease which has...bitter battles with the Mau Mau freedom-fighters described...terrorists", and as Kenyatta wanted, "a disease never...
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The Empire's Ghost Returns

Magazine article by Carina Ray; New African, August 2009

Subjects:

Black history--Social aspects, Blacks--History, Blacks--Social aspects, British colonialism--Social aspects, Human rights activists--Aims and objectives, Human rights workers--Aims and objectives, Mau Mau Uprising, 1952, Political atrocities--Social aspects, Social justice--Management

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Most importantly, the colonial ban on the Mau Mau, which was maintained by the post-independence governments of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi, meant that the Mau Mau could not actively organise on their own...

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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

...police officer explained that Jomo Kenyatta, the man accused of masterminding the Mau Mau, was being held under close arrest nearby. Kenyatta was being provided with three bottles...
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The Princess, My Family, and Our Cars

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), August 7, 2010

Subjects:

Automobiles

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

...Princess Elizabeth who had just arrived in Kenya. My father was a law enforcement officer at the time the Mau Mau, led by Jomo Kenyatta, started their independence struggle from British rule. A week later on February 8, 1952, the Princess...
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THE GOOD SPY GUIDE; KGB Told: Join the Always Carry a Smart and Hold Secret Talks At

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 1, 2005

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

...being made public at the National Archives in Kew, West London. MI5 blamed jailed 1950s Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta for Mau Mau unrest and wanted to keep him locked up, files reveal. But an earlier MI5 report said the future president, given...
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THE GOOD SPY GUIDE; KGB Told: Join the AA Always Carry a Smart Briefcase and Hold Secret Talks at Ealing Broadway

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 1, 2005

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

...being made public at the National Archives in Kew, West London. MI5 blamed jailed 1950s Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta for Mau Mau unrest and wanted to keep him locked up, files reveal. But an earlier MI5 report said the future president, given...
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Terror's Common Denominator

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 7, 2002

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

...the past 60 years. In Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, the countrys future president, and his Mau Mau terrorists launched terrorist attacks...their black supporters. In 1953, Kenyatta was convicted of managing a terrorist...

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Mau Mau

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...retaliated and non-participant Kikuyu were killed by the Mau Mau. Jomo Kenyatta and other nationalist leaders were imprisoned. By 1956, however, British troops hunted down the Mau Mau in the mountain forests. Most leaders were captured...
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Kenyatta, Jomo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

KENYATTA, JOMO jo mo kenya t , 1893? 1978, African political leader, first...became president of the Kenya African Union. In 1953, during the Mau Mau uprising, Kenyatta was imprisoned by the British as one of its instigators, then sent...
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Kikuyu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...country. During the 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...
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Nairobi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...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., and several medical and technical schools are...
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Kenya

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1952 and 1956 with the so-called Mau Mau Emergency, a complex armed revolt...nationalist leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta . After the revolt, Britain increased...J. C. Nottingham, The Myth of "Mau Mau": Nationalism in Kenya (1966...

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