Chapter 1: Inside the Mau Mau Mind: “Returning the Imperial” Gaze
in Centennial Perspective
Chapter 2: White Man’s Country: The Colonial Foundations and Legal
Architecture of the Kenyan State
Chapter 3: Colonial Rupture: African Experiential Anxiety of
Transformation in Time, Space and Place, 1900-1951
Chapter 4: ’52 Minds on Kenya’s Destiny: The view from “the
above”
Chapter 5: Drudgery in Pyrrhic Victory: Whither the Fruits of
Independence?
Chapter 6: “Matigari ma Njirungi”: Bifurcation, Atomization and
Survival of the Mentalité of Struggle
Chapter 7: “Bado Mapambano,” Solidarity Forever: Latter Day
Travails of Critical Publics
Chapter 8: The Long Kenyan Century: A People’s Elusive Quest for
“the Good Life”
Nicholas Kariuki Githuku is assistant professor of African history at York College, CUNY.
[T]here is much to be admired in this ambitious and unconventional
approach. Githuku provides a richly detailed and passionately
argued study that will be of interest to anyone who seeks to
understand the making of the postcolonial state in Kenya and the
continuing tensions and disaffections that lurk just beneath the
surface of its modern political life.
*The International Journal Of African Studies*
[This book] offers prospective readers a richly detailed analysis
of the ways in which unresolved historical problems and injustices
stemming from colonialism continue to haunt contemporary Kenya.
*African Affairs*
Nicholas Githuku’s history confronts [Kenya’s] violence and its
political effects head on. He asks new questions about Kenya’s
history, quotes previously unexamined evidence, and offers his
readers important new insights. In all this he challenges his
fellow Kenyans to join him in resurrecting their local
historiography.
*John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge*
To those who contend that the history of the colonial period is no
longer of much consequence in recent developments and trends in
Kenya and other parts of Africa, moreover, this book provides a
detailed and powerful refutation.
*Robert M. Maxon, West Virginia University*
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