Nicholas K. Githuku

Mau Mau Crucible of War (eBook, PDF)

Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalité of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the evolution of the Kenyan state, but also, the state in Africa. It not only engages historians of colonial and postcolonial economic and political history, but also sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and those who study personality and social branches of psychology, postcolonialism and postmodernity, social movements, armed conflict specialists, and conflict resolution analysts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978779433
• Artikelnr.: 74846822

Autorenporträt

Nicholas K. Githuku is assistant professor of African History at CUNY, York College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Inside the Mau Mau Mind: "Returning the Imperial" Gaze in
Centennial Perspective
Chapter 2: White Man's Country: The Colonial Foundations and Legal
Architecture of the Kenyan State
Chapter 3: Colonial Rupture: African Experiential Anxiety of Transformation
in Time, Space and Place, 1900-1951
Chapter 4: '52 Minds on Kenya's Destiny: The view from "the above"
Chapter 5: Drudgery in Pyrrhic Victory: Whither the Fruits of Independence?
Chapter 6: "Matigari ma Njirungi": Bifurcation, Atomization and Survival of
the Mentalité of Struggle
Chapter 7: "Bado Mapambano," Solidarity Forever: Latter Day Travails of
Critical Publics
Chapter 8: The Long Kenyan Century: A People's Elusive Quest for "the Good
Life"