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The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya

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No episode in African history is more controversial than the Mau Mau war, and within it, no figure more polarizing than Waruhiu Itote, or “General China.” China led Mau Mau guerrillas in a daring struggle against the British colonial government and its “loyalist” allies in Kenya all through the 1950s, but he was once spared the gallows because he turned government informant. China was once a “collaborator” to his enemies but a Kenyan “hero” to his supporters, who interpreted his change of heart as motivated by a desire to avoid wasting African lives, and who venerated China’s wholehearted service to the independent nation of Kenya after 1963.
 
The Life and Times of General China delves into the mind of this fascinating, complex, and ambiguous character. It brings together a wealthy number of sources: an abridged version of China’s famous memoir “Mau Mau” General; the typescripts of China’s interrogation and trial at British hands; his 1993 eulogy by former district officer John Nottingham; and more. For the primary time, readers can analyze the motivations of considered one of Africa’s such a lot enthralling figures–a man who inspired the overdue Nelson Mandela to mention that he was once “influenced by the life and example of General China.”

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