Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch.
Branch, Daniel, 1978-
2009
DT433.577 .B73 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch.
Author
Branch, Daniel, 1978-
ISBN
9780521113823
0521113822
9780521130905 (pbk.)
0521130905 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xx, 250 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DT433.577 .B73 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
967.62/03
Summary
This book details the devasting Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. There were as many Kikuyu who fought with the colonial government as there were loyalists who joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion.--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
African studies series ; 111.
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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.

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