Mau Mau and Kenya is a well written work which provides a clear and candid picture of the highly complex movements.

Mau Mau and Kenya traces a unique peasant revolt against British colonialism. .Was Mau Mau a national effort or an ethnic outburst? What were its political aims? Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya African Union; and the impact of Mau Mau on decolonization in Kenya.

ISBN: 9780253211668 Indiana University Press Author: Wunyabari Maloba