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The eighteen poems deal with the eminent kenyan writers political
commitment. She always seeks to infuse her poetic statements with
optimism. The poems are addressed trenchantly to such issues as the
current ideological crisis in the emergent American-led 'new world
order', gender relations, and Africa's destiny in the global
village.
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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