The Motives of Mau Mau
Basil Davidson, 24 February 1994
Unhappy Valley
by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale.
James Currey, 224 pp., £45, April 1993,0 85255 022 7 Show More
by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale.
James Currey, 224 pp., £45, April 1993,
Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt
by Wunyabari Maloba.
Indiana, 228 pp., £32.50, January 1994,0 253 33664 3 Show More
by Wunyabari Maloba.
Indiana, 228 pp., £32.50, January 1994,
“... odds and under crushingly harsh conditions, enduring death and disablement while remaining, as Maloba reminds us, from first to last ‘entirely without external friends or influence’ – in which respect (if not in others as well) Mau Mau was unique, in all the years of anti-colonial warfare up and down the African continent. Then, too, there was the ... ”
