Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
by
David M. Anderson, John Lonsdale, Nicholas Githuku
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...