Kenya
Subtitle: from colonization to independence, 1888-1970
By: R. Mugo Gatheru.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Kenya -- History.
Description: "Beginning with the advent of Europeans in the late 1800s, this volume presents Kenya as a land of contrasts--in geography as well as people. Gatheru discusses the viewpoint of the Kenyan people, enumerating the events and attitudes which led to the eventual eruption of violence"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: People of Kenya; title: The birth of mistrust; title: Mistrust flourishes; title: Death wish exploited; title: The African response; title: The Kikuyu Association-enter Kenyatta; title: Closer union versus African paramountcy; title: Intercultural relations, part I; title: Intercultural relations, part II; title: The North Nyanza gold fields; title: The Kenya Land Commission, part I; title: The Kenya Land Commission, part II; title: "Star chamber" legislation; title: Tyranny over the African labor force; title: The crisis; title: Kenyatta returns to Kenya; title: What was Mau Mau?; title: The psychology of the oath; title: The supremacy of settler politics ends; title: The turning point-enter MacLeod; title: Education as a necessary tool for independence; title: Independence; title: Kenya and East African economic integration.