New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. — 406 p. In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960 dominated the final bloody...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. — 406 p. — ISBN: 0-393-32754-X. An account of Britain's final bloody decade in Kenya, this book tells the story of the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960. New findings cast the Gikuyu rebels - hardly the terrorists they were thought to be - in a new light and reveal the British to be...
Modern Reader Paperbacks, 1966. — 512 p. — SBN-85345-135-4. "What was the 'Mau-Mau' war against colonial rule in Kenya? What did it look like from the inside? Was it a bestial return to 'African atavism,' or was it a genuine struggle for independence and a better life? Why did the Kikuyu peasants and their allies fight so long and hard against such overwhelming odds? Where did...
London: J. Currey, 1990. - 479 p. (Eastern African Studies) This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa. Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 366 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-14876-3. On December 12, 1963, people across Kenya joyfully celebrated independence from British colonial rule, anticipating a bright future of prosperity and social justice. As the nation approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, however, the people's dream remains elusive. During its first five decades...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. - 196 p. The Giriama of Kenya's coastal hinterland persistently resisted colonialism, and they were unreceptive both to Christianity and to Islam. In 1912 the British colonial authorities earmarked the Giriama as a key source of labor for the plantations Europeans were trying to develop along the coast. The Giriama, prosperous...
London: Vita Books, 2006. — 272 p. Дуррани Шираз. Никогда не молчи Пресса и империализм в Кении в 1884-1963 гг. (на англ. яз.) A History of Publishing... A History of Struggles. 1884-1922: Resistance of Nationalities. 1922-1948: Consolidation of Working Class. Kiswahili Resistance Publishing at the Coast. 1948-1963: Mau Mau Revolutionary Struggle. Overseas Support for Kenya...
London: I.B. Tauris, 2015. - 358 p. The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe...
London: James Currey; Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya; Athens: Ohio University Press, 1989. — 239 p. — (Eastern African Studies). — ISBN: 0-85255-051-0, 0-8214-0940-9. The book breaks new ground in following the story of the participants of the rural movement during the decade after the defeat of the Mau Mau. New archival sources and interviews provide exciting material on the...
Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958. — 240 p. The rise of one African leader would bring the Mau Mau movement to an end. This is the exciting story of the great Man Hunt in Kenya. An extraordinary man roamed the vast forests and craggy foothills of Kenya’s Aberdare plateau. He was a man of animal instincts and animal cunning. He was a Bible-reading fanatic who served the god Ngai. He...
Clarendon Press, 1909. — 452 p. In a previous work Mr. Hollis gave an account of the language and customs of the Masai, one of the most important and interesting tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa. The present volume, which contains a similar study of the Nandi, may be regarded as a continuation of the same re- searches, for the two tribes are certainly connected, and all...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 323 p. — (Contemporary Black History). — ISBN: 0–230–61563–5. Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya. Into Africa. A...
I. B. Tauris, 2012. — 958 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84885-886-2. Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact, and without experiencing war or military rule. However, Kenya's independence has always been circumscribed by its failure to transcend its colonial past: its governments have failed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 260 p. This is the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, Hughes describes the intrigues surrounding two enforced moves and the 1913 lawsuit, while explaining why recent events have brought the story full...
Ohio University Press, 2015. — 256 p. A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu...
London: Mercury Books, 1961. - 339 p. With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one...
RevSocialist. — 138 p. Киньятти Маина ва. Дедан Кимати и борьба за свободу Кении (на англ. яз.) Maina wa Kinyatti is a Kenyan Marxist historian and former political prisoner under Daniel arap Moi's dictatorship. He is widely considered the foremost researcher on the Mau Mau in Kenya, one of the primary reasons that Kinyatti was arrested and imprisoned. After being released from...
Editorial Data unknown. — 128 p. Маина ва Киньятти. Восстание Мау Мау в Кении - преданная революция (на англ. яз.) Historical Materialism and the Writing of our History. Mau Mau: the Peak of African Political Organization in Colonial Kenya. Kenyatta, Moi and the KANU Dictatorship. Dedan Kimaathi: Our Shining Hero. Our History Should not be Distorted. We Cannot Forget the Past....
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 305 p. Preface and acknowledgments. Sources. About the author. Maps. Prologue. Approaching philosophical discourse in a Swahili context. Coordinates – theory, ethnography, history. Towards an ‘anthropology of philosophy’. The ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice in Africa. The Swahili context. Mombasa, the Old Town, and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 116 p. — ISBN10: 110701218X; ISBN13: 978-1107012189. Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of...
Indiana University Press, 1993. — 228 p. — (Blacks in the Diaspora). — ISBN: 0-253-33664-3. Mau Mau and Kenya widens the debate about the Mau Mau revolt and adds an African voice to the examination and interpretation of an important event in African history. Wunyabari Maloba describes this unique peasant revolt against British colonialism, offering a fresh look at a movement...
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. - 393 p. The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa. It analyzes the nature and extent of the...
Boydell and Brewer, 2020. — 225 p. Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book suggests that questions of justice should be central to discussions of African land reform....
Scarecrow Press, 2000. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0810836167. A ready reference to the history and culture of this complicated and important African nation. Entries cover the important people, places, events, and culture of the nation. A thorough introduction provides important context for first time students of Kenya, and the bibliography will serve both novice and experienced...
Second Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2000. — 472 p. A ready reference to the history and culture of this complicated and important African nation. Entries cover the important people, places, events, and culture of the nation. A thorough introduction provides important context for first time students of Kenya, and the bibliography will serve both novice and experienced researchers...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 582 p. Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago. Indeed, some archaeologists contend that the country was the "cradle of mankind" or, at the very least, one of the places that was home to the earliest hominids. In later centuries, Kenya's strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the...
London: University of London, 1969. — 240 p. Муриуки Годфрей. История народа кикуйю до 1904 года (на англ. яз.) The physical setting. Migration and settlement. The Kikuyu and their neighbours. The social and political structure. Prelude to British rule. Maps.
New York: Algora Publishing, 2005. — 238 p. — ISBN: 0-87586-320-5. Examining the impact of foreign aid, trade policies, study-abroad programs, religion, entertainment, the media and other forms of foreign influence on Kenya and other under-developed African nations, the author finds that initiatives billed as "assistance" in many cases serve instead to keep in place the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 267 p. This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times through the first years of independence. The book comprises twenty-one chapters divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the long precolonial moment, detailing the nature of precolonial Kenyan societies and their economics,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 509 p. — (Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa).
Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic cables in 2009, Digital Kenya examines why the...
Africa Book Services, 1982. — 392 p. The following brief biographies gives a categorised overview of notable people from Kenya, actually to 1982-1983. Politicians and military commanders. Notable civil servants. Academics, scientists and medical professionals. Religious leaders. Business people and entrepreneurs. Sports persons. Writers and playwrights. Journalists and media...
Scarecrow Press, 1981. — 312 p. A ready reference to the history, society and culture of this complicated and important African Kenyan nation. Entries cover the important people, places, events, and culture of the nation. A thorough introduction provides important context for first time students of Kenya, and the bibliography will serve both novice and experienced researchers...
Indiana University Press, 1997. — 368 p. Robertson's book represents a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended. Herskovitz Award-winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender,...
A Meridian Book, 1966. — 427 p. This scholarly study dispels the belief that Mau Mau was an atavistic movement rooted in mystic African cults designed to achieve Kikuya domi- nance in Kenya at the expense of progress under British rule, and shows that the short-sightedness of European policy-makers precipitated the violence. Analyzing Mau Mau within the context of the growth of...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 241 p. This work examines the history of colonial administration and economic development policy in Kenya during the early colonial period of 1909-1912. Abdullahi Sara provides analysis of the existing administration and economic condition and also possible courses of action that can be taken to remedy Kenya’s administrative and economic predicaments....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 249 p. — ISBN: 1-4039-8374-7. This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective. Introduction: Hegemony and Counterhegemony in Colonial Context. Domination and Its Resistance: Writings on Mau Mau. Rebel Yell: The Field Marshal’s...
Brill, 2014. — 187 p. — (African Social Studies Series 34). In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya, Hannah Whittaker offers an in-depth analysis of the Somali secessionist war in northern Kenya, 1963-1968. Combining archival and oral data, the work captures the complexity of the conflict, which combined a series of local, national and regional confrontations. The conflict...
Каталог фотовыставки. — Санкт-Петербург: Петроний, 2010. — 48 с. В 1913 г. Музей приобрел у молодого шведского исследователя Герхарда Линдблома (1887 — 1969) обширную коллекцию по камба (самоназвание акамба, мн. ч.; мукамба, ед. ч.), народу группы банту, живущему в основном в исторической области Укамбани, что на юге страны в бассейне реки Ати. Это собрание (№ 2130) состояло из...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1985. — 392 с. — (История стран Африки). В монографии рассматриваются основные этапы истории Кении. Проанализированы проблемы заселения ее территории и этногенеза, уровень развития и социальный характер цивилизации восточноафриканского побережья. Большое внимание автор уделяет особенностям английской колониальной политики, процессам...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1985. — 392 с. — (История стран Африки). В монографии рассматриваются основные этапы истории Кении. Проанализированы проблемы заселения ее территории и этногенеза, уровень развития и социальный характер цивилизации восточноафриканского побережья. Большое внимание автор уделяет особенностям английской колониальной политики, процессам...
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