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Kenyatta and Britain

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50895-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-50894-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 16, 2017

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Introduction

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 1 –7

[This Introduction focuses on the rise of Kenyatta’s political mythology in colonial Kenya. It discusses the linkage between his pioneering trips to Britain and the rise of his political mythology as the “burning spear” of African nationalism in Kenya. It highlights some of the major themes that...
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The Two Trips and Petitions to the Center of the Empire

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 9 –43

[A detailed consideration and analysis of Kenyatta’s famed two trips to Britain to present petitions to the Colonial Office. No book exists that cites from actual petitions, their intent and objectives, and Kenyatta’s reply to memoranda from the Colonial Office. An analysis of Kenya’s state of...
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Spying on Political Activism

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 45 –80

[A description and analysis of the spying on Kenyatta while he was resident in Britain by the British intelligence services, sanctioned by the legendary founder of MI5 (the British domestic intelligence service that also had the power to spy in the colonies). New material shows how extensive the...
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Pan Africanism: Discussions on Strategy for Liberation, Marriage, and Surveillance

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 81 –107

[This chapter considers Kenyatta in Britain during World War II; surveillance and the strategies for liberation by radical Pan Africanists in London and how these affected Kenyatta; moving from a preference for armed revolt to mass nationalism under the leadership of radical nationalists, and...
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Back Home: Politics of Nationalism, Mau Mau, Prison, and Surveillance

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 109 –141

[Politics of nationalism, Mau Mau, and surveillance. A detailed consideration of the causes of the Mau Mau peasant revolt and Kenyatta’s supposed role. The state of mass nationalism and the determined efforts by the colonial security forces to spy on Kenyatta and the nationalists; frustrations of...
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“Let Jomo Go”: Defining and Framing a Symbol

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 143 –193

[The first detailed analysis of international efforts by international radical and progressive political groups agitating for Kenyatta’s freedom. Kenyatta as a symbol of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism. Strategies by the colonial government to “endorse Kenyatta out” of Kenya politics;...
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The Search for Alternatives

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 195 –222

[A fervent and spirited effort by the colonial government, colonial security forces and the Colonial Office to permanently exclude Kenyatta from power in Kenya, even as decolonization loomed. The rise of multiracial political parties led by local white politicians with the stated purpose of...
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The Turning Point: Kenyatta and Malcolm MacDonald

Maloba, W. O.

Pages: 223 –272

[A critical analysis of the changes in Kenyatta’s political fortune from “leader to darkness and death” to the West’s most beloved post-colonial African leader. The astute efforts of Malcolm MacDonald, the last British governor of Kenya, who determined that prior judgments by the colonial and...

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