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“Mau Mau’s Children provides insights that
are vivid and important and that are not
available elsewhere in literature.”
—Richard Waller, Bucknell University
Of related interest
Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931
Edited by David Newbury
Foreword by Roger V. Des Forges
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“A brilliant, lively, and daring interpretation of Musinga’s governance of Rwanda under foreign
control. Documenting the colonial situation that gave rise to a precarious future, this book is
essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the tragedy of Rwanda’s recent history.”
—Jan Vansina, author of
Oral Tradition as History
and
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda
Published April 2011
LC: 2010038905 DT 304 pp. 6 x 9 4 illus., 7 maps
ISBN 978-0-299-28144-1 Paper $26.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-28143-4 e-book $19.95 s
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History / African Studies / Politics / Education
July 2012
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184 pp. 6 x 9 12 b/w photos
Paper $26.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-28784-9
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ISBN 978-0-299-28783-2
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Thomas Spear, David Henige, and Michael
Schatzberg, Series Editors
The Making of Kenya’s Postcolonial Elite
Foreword by Thomas Spear
Who were the children of the Mau Mau Rebellion and what
became of them after Kenya’s independence?
In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural
school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were
heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence,
approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school
where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the
challenges of this postcolonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan
society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of postcolonial elites.
In
Mau Mau’s Children
, Sandgren reconnects with these former
students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides
readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first post-
colonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of
their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews,
Mau Mau’s
Children
shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau
Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational
conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu
ethnicity on his students’ path to success.
is professor of history at
Concordia College–Moorhead in Minnesota.
He is the author of
Christianity and the Kikuyu:
Religious Divisions and Social Conflict.
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