HI 022: Violence, History and Memory in Twentieth-­‐Century Africa Further Reading: Kenya 1952-­‐1960 What was Mau Mau? Imagination, Narrative and Practice Atieno Odhiambo, ES and John Lonsdale, eds (2002) Mau Mau and Nationhood, Oxford : James Currey. Especially chapters by Lonsdale, Anderson, Peterson and Jackson (for Mau Mau identity and practice), or Ogude and Clough (for memories of Mau Mau) Kennedy, Dane (1992) ‘Constructing the colonial myth of Mau Mau’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 25, pp.241-­‐60 Lonsdale, John (1990) ‘Mau Maus of the mind: making Mau Mau and remaking Kenya’, Journal of African History, 31, pp. 393-­‐421 Kikuyu Loyalists and Civil War Anderson, David, (2005), Histories of the Hanged: the Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Anderson, David. (2006). “Surrogates of the State: Collaboration and Atrocity in Kenya's Mau Mau War.” In The Barbarisation of Warfare, edited by George Kassimeris, 159–174. Lonsdale, John (1992), ‘The Moral Economy of Mau Mau’ in Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale (eds) Unhappy Valley – 2 vols, Oxford : James Currey. Branch, Daniel (2007) ‘The enemy within: loyalists and the war against Mau Mau’, Journal of African History, 48, no.2 (2007), 291-­‐316 Branch, Daniel. (2009) Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ‘The Pipeline’: Internment and Torture Anderson, David M. (2012). ‘British Abuse and Torture in Kenya's Counter-­‐
Insurgency, 1952–1960.’ Small Wars and Insurgencies 23 (4-­‐5): 700–719. Elkins, Caroline (2005) Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, Holt: New York Peterson, Derek R. (2008) ‘The intellectual lives of Mau Mau detainees’, Journal of
African History, 49, no.1, 73-92
See also the witness statements during the High Court case, below. The High Court and the ‘Lost’ Archives ‘Mau Mau Judgement’ collection, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, no. 5 (2011): collection of articles by the three ‘expert witnesses’ -­‐ Anderson, Elkins and Bennett Explore the witness, expert and government statements collected at the site of solicitors Leigh Day: http://www.leighday.co.uk/Illness-­‐and-­‐
injury/International-­‐and-­‐group-­‐claims/Kenya/The-­‐Mau-­‐Mau-­‐claims Justice McCombe, Approved Judgment: Ndiku Mutua and Four Others ‘The Last Battle’, Witness, Al Jazeera documentary of the court case, http://www.aljazeera.com/video/ Radio documentary on the Hanslope Disclosure, Document, BBC Radio 4, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039q24w