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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya - Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (Paperback)
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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya - Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (Paperback)
Series: African Studies
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This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya
during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the
post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial
government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on
the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which
residents of the country s Central Highlands sought to navigate a
path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It
explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances,
and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local
politics for decades after the conflict s conclusion. Moreover, the
book moves toward a more nuanced understanding of the realities and
effects of counterinsurgency warfare. Based on archival research in
Kenya and the United Kingdom and insights from literature from
across the social sciences, the book reconstructs the dilemmas
facing members of society at war with itself and its colonial
ruler.
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