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Dedan Kimathi speaks : we will fight to the last gun

Title: Dedan Kimathi speaks : we will fight to the last gun / edited by Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ ; foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Publication: Nairobi, Kenya : Mau Mau Research Center, 2016.

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Description

248 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

The British captured extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau, which to this day have not been made public. Here for the first time as a result of years of village level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the movement's and its leader, Dedan Kimathi's-most important papers. Translated into English, they make startlingly clear the movement's own perspectives on their struggle and its difficulties, the relatively advanced nature of their goals as a national liberation movement, and their radical vision of a liberated Kenyan society Dedan Kimathi became President of the Mau Mau's ruling body in August 1953 and remained overall leader until his capture and savagely execution by the British imperialist occupiers two years later. He ordered the movement to keep documentation for the purposes of providing, as he put it, "concrete evidence that we fought and died for this land". By recovering some of these materials Maina wa Kinyatti has done Kenyan history a signal service. His introduction, moreover, does not refrain from a trenchant critique of the limitations Mau Mau's particular brand of patriotic nationalism imposed on its struggle. --Back cover

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Genre/Form

History.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-11523

ISBN

9789966187031
9966187030

LCCN

2015333165

OCLC

967790916

Title

Dedan Kimathi speaks : we will fight to the last gun / edited by Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ ; foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Publisher

Nairobi, Kenya : Mau Mau Research Center, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1952-1960

Added Author

Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ editor.

Mau Mau Research Center, issuing body.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-11523

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