Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ
• Mau Mau Research Center

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

Subject

• Kimathi, Dedan, 1920-1957
• Mau Mau Emergency (Kenya : 1952-1960)
• 1952-1960
• Anti-imperialist movements > Kenya
• Revolutionaries > Kenya
• Kenya > History > Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960
• Kenya

Genre/Form

History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789966187031
• 9966187030

LCCN

^^2015333165

OCLC

• 967790916
• SCSB-12178856

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library