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The Southern Kikuyu before 1903.
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ISBN: 0124399010 0124399029 Year: 1977 Publisher: London Academic press

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Writing for Kenya
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ISBN: 1282400924 9786612400926 9047427505 9789047427506 9789004174047 9004174044 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.


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African ethics
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ISBN: 9789042030886 9789042030893 9042030895 128279292X 9786612792922 9042030887 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam New York

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African Ethics: Gĩkũyũ Traditional Morality by Hannah Kinoti was prompted by the author’s concern about the decline of moral standards among the Gĩkũyũ in modern Kenya. Western education and increased interaction with other cultures had made the society more complex and sophisticated. At the same time, social evils like corruption, robbery, prostitution, broken homes and sexual promiscuity were on the increase. “While this is happening,” says the author, “African culture is often referred to in the past tense as if it is no longer relevant.” She wished to discover what were the virtues that, prior to the introduction of western civilization, held society together and formed the basis of its morality. She decided to examine some of the key virtues (honesty, generosity, justice, courage and temperance) that were highly valued in traditional Gĩkũyũ culture. She then compared the understanding and practice of these virtues by three groups: old people (who had had first-hand experience of traditional life), middle-aged people and young people. The results of this study should appeal to researchers and teachers of African traditions, culture, religion and ethics. Equally, students of comparative ethics should find this a valuable source of information on traditional ways of maintaining behaviour that made for harmony in society. Young Africans wishing to get a deeper understanding of their roots should also find this work of great interest.


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Le onzième commandement : etiologie d'une église indépendante au pied du mont Kenya
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ISBN: 3858240532 9783858240538 Year: 1978 Volume: 27 Publisher: Immensee: Nouvelle Revue de science missionnaire,


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Ethnology of A-Kamba and other East African Tribes
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ISBN: 110801044X 0511696981 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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C.W. Hobley (1867-1947) was a colonial administrator who was stationed in Kenya between 1894 & 1921. Following the implementation of Indirect Rule in Kenya, indigenous law & custom were followed in political & judicial proceedings, with the colonial administration requiring a working knowledge of traditional customs. This book contains information collected by C.W. Hobley during his tenure as administrator of Nyanza Province & was first published in 1910. This detailed ethnography was the first systematic survey of the Kamba people, & provides a comprehensive description of their traditional society, cultural practices & political & economic life. A description of the social organization of the Masai people is also provided. This volume contains views on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was first published.


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Fighting the Mau Mau
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ISBN: 9781107656246 9781139342506 9781107029705 9781139840521 1139840525 1139342509 9781283818087 1283818086 9781139845250 113984525X 1107029708 1107656249 1107237378 113985433X 1139842897 1107254884 113984170X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes prevented the campaign from degenerating into genocide, the army simultaneously coerced the population to drop their support for the rebels, imposing collective fines, mass detentions and frequent interrogations, often tolerating rape, indiscriminate killing and torture to terrorise the population into submission.

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