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Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural
history of the mentalite 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.
There is growing consensus in the development economics literature
that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining
Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic
Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing
on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political
scientists as well as development economists, this book questions
whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle by which
to examine the economic development of Africa, arguing that it is a
more fluid and contingent concept than economic models allow.
Instead, the authors explore the actual experience of ethnicity in
Africa and propose new methods of measuring ethnic diversity and
inequalities. Finally some tentative conclusions are reached
regarding appropriate policy reforms.
There is growing consensus in the development economics literature
that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining
Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic
Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing
on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political
scientists as well as development economists, this book questions
whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle by which
to examine the economic development of Africa, arguing that it is a
more fluid and contingent concept than economic models allow.
Instead, the authors explore the actual experience of ethnicity in
Africa and propose new methods of measuring ethnic diversity and
inequalities. Finally some tentative conclusions are reached
regarding appropriate policy reforms.
In this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African
history examines the perceptions and responses of Africans to
European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century. This edition of Boahen's text, originally published in
1989, is contextualized in a new foreword by John Lonsdale,
updating some of Boahen's findings and interpretations while
maintaining that the "best, totally unambiguous, legacy of this
republication would surely be the inspiration of a new generation
of African scholars, locally based, as clear-minded and outspoken
as Adu Boahen himself."
Today, the cohesion of multi-ethnic societies is at risk across the
globe. Throughout history, to the present day, African countries
have been facing this challenge. Historical inequalities and social
division undermine cohesion and sow seeds of instability. How can
Africa build a future where ethnic and other differences are a
strength, a driver of growth and development, rather than sources
of division and instability? Drawing together historians,
economists and political scientists, each an authority on Africa,
this book delivers a comprehensive study of that question through
an exploration of the continent's divided histories, to understand
where Africans stand now, and to reflect on how they might now work
towards a more trusting society. Numerous case studies, statistical
expositions and theoretical reflections bring conceptual clarity to
the often poorly understood processes and contexts of social
cohesion, not only in Africa, but across the developing and
developed world.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Libraryocm25984756Includes index.London: V. and R. Stevens and G.S.
Norton, 1839. 11, 360 p.; 22 cm.
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and
collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than
Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel
forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the
1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau
Mau rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant,
modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and
subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and
turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Dedan Kimathi on Trial
unearths a piece of the colonial archive long thought lost, hidden,
or destroyed. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an
already contentious history and prompts fresh examinations of its
reverberations in the present. Here, the entire trial transcript is
available for the first time. This critical edition also includes
provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting
on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of
Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary
concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral
arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and
the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary
Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas
Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by
Willy Mutunga.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites
argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. More than
fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency the
significance of Mau Mau is still debated. This collection combines
retrospective overviews with research to achieve a multi-layered
analysis of this topic. According to Professor Terence Ranger,
Emeritus Rhodes Prfessor of Race Relations, University of Oxford:
'In some ways the historiography of Mau Mau is a supreme example
not only of ambiguity and complexity but also of redemption of a
topic that was once thought incapable of rational analysis.' North
America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and
collective imaginations of Kenya's decolonization era more than
Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel
forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the
1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau
Mau rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant,
modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and
subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and
turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Dedan Kimathi on Trial
unearths a piece of the colonial archive long thought lost, hidden,
or destroyed. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an
already contentious history and prompts fresh examinations of its
reverberations in the present. Here, the entire trial transcript is
available for the first time. This critical edition also includes
provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting
on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of
Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary
concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral
arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and
the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary
Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas
Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by
Willy Mutunga.
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