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portada Economic & Social Origins mau Mau: Eastern African Studies
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
1987
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Weight
0.95
ISBN
0821408844
ISBN13
9780821408841
Edition No.
1

Economic & Social Origins mau Mau: Eastern African Studies

David Throup (Author) · Ohio Univ Pr · Paperback

Economic & Social Origins mau Mau: Eastern African Studies - David Throup

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Synopsis "Economic & Social Origins mau Mau: Eastern African Studies "

This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining the social and economic causes of the Kikuyu revolt. Dr. Throup combines traditional Imperial History with its emphasis on the high politics of "The Official Mind" in the Colonial Office or in Government House with the new African historiography that concentrates on the people themselves. Sir Philip Mitchell was the proconsul chosen to reassert metropolitan authority. Under Kenyatta's leadership the Kenya African Union mobilized a popular constituency among the peasantry. In Nairobi the Kikuyu street gangs linked up with the militant Kikuyu trade unions, led by Fred Kubai and Bildad Kaggia, to challenge Kenyatta's leadership. The Mau Mau movement, as it was called by the government, was an alliance between three groups of discontented Kikuyu: the urban unemployed and destitute, the dispossessed squatters from the White Highlands and the tenants and members of the junior clans in the Kikuyu reserves. The revolt was a dominating factor in convincing the conservative imperial government that the cost of repression in the African colonies was not worth the troops and resources.

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