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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Mau Mau"”.
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A Kenyan Revolution: Mau Mau, Land, Women, and Nation.
… which culminated into what became known as Mau Mau, led by the Kenya Land Freedom Army. During this time, the British colonial government imposed laws limiting their access to land, politics, and independence. The turbulent 1950s in Kenyan history should be considered a revolution because of …
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Anglicanism, the Mau Mau Conflict, and Decolonisation in Kenya, 1952 - 1963
This study of Anglicanism, the Mau Mau conflict, and decolonisation in Kenya advances the limited literature on Christianity during the late imperial period in East Africa. Using new Christian and government sources, I detail how Anglicans navigated the complex and violent Mau Mau insurgency. I …
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Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
Mississippi Mau Mau expands upon existing historical analysis of the ideological connections between African liberation struggles and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States by concentrating on the ways in which American civil rights activists absorbed and utilized knowledge from …
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The role of jus cogens in resolving the intertemporal problem in Mau Mau torture claims and other historical injustices: a theoretical exploration
… a possibility that this thesis explores using Mau Mau torture claims as a case study. Present in much legal opinion on the question is a presumption that inter-temporal law applies unless state practice justifying an exception for jus cogens can be found. However, this necessarily subjects jus …
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Kikuyu Christianity and its Public Role in Kenya, 1891 - 1960
… violence in colonial Kenya, namely, the Mau Mau rebellion. It underscores Kikuyu agency in the encounter, and how colonial and missionary initiatives shaped and were in turn informed by that agency. The study highlights the necessity of rethinking the religious encounter and the place of …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… rule (the female circumcision debate and the Mau Mau insurgency) , in which 'woman' is mobilized as a metaphor for the Kenyan social matrix by Gikuyu nationalist/traditionalist discourses. Following Spivak, I find in female circumcision a metonym of the silencing of the subaltern woman as an …
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The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Theory of Mobilization and Conflict Outcome
… the proposed mechanisms against four cases (the Mau Mau in Kenya, the Shining Path in Peru, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, and the EPLF in Eritrea).
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Kenya and the ICC: the politics of the 2007 post-election violence
… experienced its worst bout of violence since the Mau Mau rebellion, before independence. The Post - Election Violence (PEV) lasted two months. It was resolved following an agreement, the Kenya National and Reconciliation Dialogue (K N D R), negotiated by a Panel of Eminent Personalities. The …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
… upon Max Gluckman’s interpretation of the Mau Mau uprising in colonial Kenya to sketch their respective accounts of how, and under what conditions, social movements ‘modernize’. Chapter 2 shows how the thought of South African émigré Marxists developed within British New Left milieus as a …
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Propaganda, publicity and political violence : the presentation of terrorism in Britain, 1944-60
… the end of the Mandate, the Malayan Communists, Mau Mau, and EOKA in Cyprus? The thesis focuses particularly on the way in which propaganda has been seen as a crucial component of the terrorist strategy. Consequently, in the attempt to deny insurgents publicity, and to mediate the perception of …
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Pondoks, houses, and hostels : a history of Nyanga 1946-1970, with a special focus on housing
… differences in physical space between Mau-Mau and the Old Location, which contributed to the social distance between the two neighbourhoods. During the massive "black spot" clearance campaign of the 1950s, the authorities succeeded in gaining spatial control over Africans by forcing …