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AN ANALYSIS OF A PEASANT REVOLT WUmrABARI MALOBA O. MAU MAU AND KENYA WuHU> Aivfs<^ COUNCIt.LmBABA »12SUTTBRaTRBBT 6Ai< FR/JVCrSCO.CA i4it» Blacks in the Diaspora Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Jr., and David Barry Caspar General Editors MAU MAU AND KENYA An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt Wunyabari O. Maloba INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BloomingtonandIndianapolis JAMES CURREY Oxford — Firstpaperbackeditionpublished 1998in NorthAmericaby IndianaUniversity Press 601 NorthMortonStreet,Bloomington, Indiana47404 andintheUnitedKingdomby JamesCurrey Publishers 73 BotleyRoad,Oxford0X2OBS Copyright© 1993byWunyabariO.Maloba Allrightsreserved Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedinany form,or byanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying andrecording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretrievalsystem,withoutpermissionin writingfromthepublisher.TheAssociation ofAmericanUniversityPresses'ResolutiononPermissions constitutestheonlyexceptiontothisprohibition. Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimum requirementsofAmericanNationalStandardforInformation — Sciences PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials, ANSIZ39.48-1984. ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Maloba,WunyabariO.,date MauMauandKenya: ananalysisofapeasantrevolt/ WunyabariO. Maloba. — p. cm. (Blacksinthediaspora) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-253—-33664-3(alk.paper) IS—BN0-253-21166-2(pbk.—:alk. paper) 1. Kenya Pol—iticsand—governme—nt To 1963.2.MauMau History. 3.Nationalism —Kenya —History 20thcentury.4. Peasantuprisings Kenya History 20thcentury. I.Title. II.Series. DT433.577.M35 1993 967.6204—dc20 92-31421 2 3 4 5 02 01 00 9998 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Maloba,WunyabariO. MauMauandKenya ananalysisofapeasantrevolt : — — — 1.MauMau 2.—Peasantuprisings Kenya—History 20thcentury 3. Kenya Politicsandgovernment To 1963 I.Title 967.6'2'03 ISBN0-85255-745-0 1 2 3 4 5 02 01 00 9998 For my mother Mary Amboko Whose life taught me the meaning and value of perseverance Contents PREFACE IX introduction: The Theory of Peasant Revolts and Mau Mau 1 PART ONE: Background to the Revolt One. The Economics of Desperation 23 Two. Frustrations of Nationalism 45 Three. 1952: Year of Collision 64 PART TWO: The Military and Ideological Phase Four. British Military Strategy 81 Five. Propaganda and the Oaths 98 Six. Mau Mau Military and Political Strategy 114 PART THREE: Rehabilitation, Independence, and Legacy Seven. Rehabilitation 137 Eight. Toward Independence: Political Parties and Decolonization 151 Nine. The Legacy of Mau Mau 169 ABBREVIATIONS 181 NOTES 182 BIBLIOGRAPHY 208 INDEX 218 Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive 2012 in littp://archive.org/details/maumaukenyaanalyOOmalo
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