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Article: Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory, and Politics.(Review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- September 22, 2000
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Marshall S. Clough, Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory, and Politics. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. xii + 283. Maps, glossary, bibliography, index. No price given.
In the mid 1950s the British declared a "state of emergency" in their East African colony of Kenya in response to acts of violence by Africans from the Central Highlands (mostly Gikuyu) who were threatening white settlers and intimidating their Kenyan collaborators. This episode, known as the Mau Mau insurgency, was characterized by the British "primitive," "barbaric," "terrorist," and viewed as potentially nationalistic. As such, the British endeavored to crush it, rounding up suspected supporters ...