Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya
Book Details
Author(s)
Nicholas K. Githuku
Publisher
Lexington Books
ISBN / ASIN
1498506984
ISBN-13
9781498506984
Availability
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Sales Rank
#4,544,141
Category
Hardcover
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalité of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the evolution of the Kenyan state, but also, the state in Africa. It not only engages historians of colonial and postcolonial economic and political history, but also sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and those who study personality and social branches of psychology, postcolonialism and postmodernity, social movements, armed conflict specialists, and conflict resolution analysts.
