By Keith Kyle (auth.)
ISBN-10: 023037770X
ISBN-13: 9780230377707
ISBN-10: 0312222017
ISBN-13: 9780312222017
ISBN-10: 0333714709
ISBN-13: 9780333714706
ISBN-10: 0333760980
ISBN-13: 9780333760987
As together with his significantly acclaimed ebook on Suez, Keith Kyle revisits as a pupil flooring that he first coated as a print and tv journalist. After 3 introductory chapters overlaying the years 1895-1957, the center of the booklet examines in vigorous aspect how Kenya moved from Mau Mau trauma to nationwide freedom. The immediacy of the eye-witness, which older readers will consider from tv stories, is now mixed with the culmination of mirrored image and meticulous archival examine to create a distinct authoritative learn of this very important interval for Kenya, for Africa and for the British Empire.
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Indeed it was by not being there that his reputation remained unimpaired. Nationalist politics in Kenya followed a pattern that was to become only too familiar a feature of African politics in general. Harry Thuku was elected president of the KCA, defeating Joseph Kang'ethe, but soon he was found both too arrogant and too moderate. Kang'ethe and Jesse Kariuki formed their own breakaway party also calling itself the KCA. There were allegations of misapplying funds and Thuku brought a court action against his critics.
There was a dramatic fall in congregations and school attendance and parents turned to schools started by the Kikuyu Independent Schools Association and the Kikuyu Karing'a Educational Association in order to conduct education independently of the missions. These schools, whose educational standards were often considered questionable, were to prove in time to be prime generators of nationalism outside European influences. ,2 The highly emotional topic of circumcision radicalized the Kikuyu youth and provided the KCA, for the first time, with mass support.
38 This was the first manifestation of a recurrent problem for Kenyatta until, thirty-three years later, he was to achieve supreme power. As was said of Abraham Lincoln, he was probably one of those men who are equipped for no job except the top one and of this 34 The Rise of African Nationalism destiny he was increasingly prescient. There were at least three major occasions when his instinct as a modernizer came into conflict with his belief in strengthening Kikuyus' sense of self-worth by emphasis on tribal tradition.
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