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Mau Mau, 2007.
A description of the Mau Mau movement in Kenya circa 1948.
2,825 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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Abstract
This paper examines several different viewpoints of the Mau Mau revolutionary movement in Kenya. The author considers outlooks of the colonial powers toward the Mau Mau and also strives to determine what is myth and what was reality regarding the Mau Mau's actions. The paper illustrates how opinions of the Mau Mau starkly contrasted depending on an individual's political outlook. The paper includes a brief literature review which further evaluates these differing outlooks.
Outline:
Introduction
Brief History
Mau Mau Myth vs. Reality
Contrasting Views of the Mau Mau in First Years of Emergency
View #1: Extremists
View #2: Liberal Paternalists
A Third Viewpoint
A Fourth View
The Differences over the Mau Mau Roots and Myth
European View after the Emergency
Conclusion
From the Paper
"MAU MAU MYTH VS. REALITY: How much of what has been written is myth, and how much is truth, regarding the Mau Mau? Dane Kennedy writes in The International Journal of African Historical Studies (Kennedy 1992) that the Mau Mau movement became "encrusted by layers of political myth." Kennedy asserts that authors Carl G. Rosberg and John Nottingham (The Myth of "Mau Mau") "smashed the hitherto reigning myth" of the Mau Mau movement. Kennedy believes that the "earliest and most potent political myth" about the Mau Mau resulted from "the highly influential colonialist view of the Kikuyu revolt as a pathological reaction to the pressures of modernization" (243). Kennedy points out that the Kikuyu (he spells it "Gikuyu") culture had many elements, including Christians, traditionalists, landowners and tenants, squatters in the white highlands and taxi drivers in Nairobi. "
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Kenya and the Mau Mau Revolt, 2006.
A look at the contrasting aspects of Kenya's Mau Mau uprising of 1952-1960.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 6 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper refers to the contrasting accounts of the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960 that hastened the independence of Kenya at the terrible price of a civil war and brutal British counterinsurgency campaign. It then discusses economic origins and Marxist historians' views, and examines the dimensions of Kenya's numbers who accepted or supported British rule, demanded a gradual devolution of power and maintained respect for institutions.
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"The Mau Mau Uprising of 1952-1960, sharpened conflict between Kenya's European settlers and the Home Office in Britain that would bring Kenya's independence in 1963. The rebellion is a reminder of how colonial movements of the kind were often always well developed, ideologically, even as their heroes stay in popular memory as people involved in a noble campaign for freedom. The Mau Mau featured various contrasts in a unique movement that grew from an unique Kenyan environment. "
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Politics in Kenya in the 20th Century, 2000.
This paper discusses the role of the Mau Mau tribe in Kenya's independence. Also, the role of Jomo Kenyatta and the Kikuyu Central Association regarding liberation from British oppression.
3,088 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 30 sources, $ 90.95
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This paper discusses the political situation in Kenya, specifically the Mau Mau tribe. The author explains the role of the British, and their eventual eradication from Kenya.
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"The road to freedom and development in modern day Africa has been a lengthy struggle for the continent?s nations. Political negotiations, violent uprisings, and anti- European liberation movements were all employed by different African countries at various times, depending on how difficult achieving independence would be. For nations like Tanganyika, independence was obtained through less hectic means; as this country?s primary nationalist movement (Tanganyika African National Union), led by Julius Nyere, won a decisive majority in the 1958 British parliamentary election. TANU?s victory coupled with the support they received from several powerful white-settler politicians resulted in independence for this nation, ultimately constructed around a fair and non-racial constitution."
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