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Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (African Studies)

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This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya throughout the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. As many Kikuyu fought with the colonial government as loyalists joined the Mau Mau riot. Specializing in the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways wherein residents of the country’s Central Highlands sought to navigate a path in the course of the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways wherein cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict’s conclusion. Additionally, the book moves toward a more nuanced working out of the realities and effects of counterinsurgency warfare. In line with archival research in Kenya and the UK and insights from literature from around the social sciences, the book reconstructs the dilemmas facing members of society at war with itself and its colonial ruler.

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