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Mau Mau - The Kenyan Emergency 1952-60 (Paperback)
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Mau Mau - The Kenyan Emergency 1952-60 (Paperback)
Series: Africa@War
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The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British
Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes
began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the
late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to
India, and the emergence of a credible indigenous intellectual and
political caste that was poised to inherit control from the waning
European imperial powers. The British on the whole managed to
disengage from Africa with a minimum of ill feeling and violence,
conceding power in the Gold Coast, Nigeria and Sierra Leone under
an orderly constitutional process, and engaging only in the
suppression of civil disturbances in Nyasaland and Northern
Rhodesia as the practicalities of a political handover were
negotiated. In Kenya, however, matters were different. A vociferous
local settler lobby had accrued significant economic and political
authority under a local legislature, coupled with the fact that
much familial pressure could be brought to bear in Whitehall by
British settlers of wealth and influence, most of whom were utterly
irreconciled to the notion of any kind of political handover. Mau
Mau was less than a liberation movement, but much more than a mere
civil disturbance. Its historic importance is based primarily on
the fact that the Mau Mau campaign was one of the first violent
confrontations in sub-Saharan Africa to take place over the
question of the self-determination of the masses. It also
epitomized the quandary suffered by the white settler communities
of Africa who had been promised utopia in an earlier century, only
to be confronted in a post-war world by the completely unexpected
reality of black political aspiration. This book journeys through
the birth of British East Africa as a settled territory of the
Empire, and the inevitable politics of confrontation that emerged
from the unequal distribution of resources and power. It covers the
emergence and growth of Mau Mau, and the strategies applied by the
British to confront and nullify what was in reality a tactically
inexpert, but nonetheless powerfully symbolic black expression of
political violence. That Mau Mau set the tone for Kenyan
independence somewhat blurred the clean line of victory and defeat.
The revolt was suppressed and peace restored, but events in the
colony were nevertheless swept along by the greater movement of
Africa toward independences, resulting in the eventual
establishment of majority rule in Kenya in 1964.
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