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1. The Clouds Beneath the Sun
by Mackenzie Ford
Kenya, 1961. As a small plane carrying Nathalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Nathalie knows she's run just about as far as she ... More
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2. A Grain of Wheat
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. "A Grain of Wheat" portrays several characters in a ... More
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8. Mau Mau from Below
by Greet Kershaw
A unique study of the movement based on fieldwork done at the time of the Mau Mau emergency.
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9. Mau Mau from Below: Eastern African Studies
by Greet Kershaw, John Lonsdale (Introduction by)
The field notes of an anthropologist living among the Kikuyu people provide insights into their values, fears, and expectations.
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12. Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-insurgency in the Kenya Emergency
by Huw Bennett
British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force ... More
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14. The Broken Word
by Adam Foulds
An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, eventually becoming a meditation on the ... More
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15. The Social Context of the Mau Mau Movement in Kenya (1952-1960)
by Kinuthia Macharia, Muigai Kanyua
The Social Context of the Mau Mau Movement in Kenya (1952-1960) explores the social climate that united different clans and ethnic groups and ... More
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16. A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police Officer (Special Branch)
by Derek Peter Franklin
Prior to and after Kenya's independence, this biography recounts a Kenyan police officer's daily experiences, including armed combat in the bush, the ... More
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17. Defeating Mau Mau
by L S B Leakey
The second of two important books by Louis Leakey, the renowned expert on the Kikuyu tribe. This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau ... More
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18. Mau Mau Detainee
by Kariuki, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
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19. Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
by David Anderson
This book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In ... More
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20. Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya
by S M Shamsul Alam
This offers an alternative to the colonialist and nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history ... More
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21. The Broken Word: An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It
by Adam Foulds
With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya.
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