Defeating Mau Mau - L.S.B. Leakey

The second of two important books by Louis Leakey, the renowned expert on the Kikuyu tribe. This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau movement, its propaganda, the nature of its religious aspects and its oaths and the mistakes its leaders made as well as covering chapters on necessary reforms to prevent further outbreaks of a similar nature.

The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony. From the start, the land was the primary British interest in Kenya, which had "some of the richest agricultural soils in the world, mostly in districts where the elevation and climate make it possible for Europeans to reside permanently". Though declared a colony in 1920, the formal British colonial presence in Kenya began with a proclamation on 1 July 1895, in which Kenya was claimed as a British protectorate.

By: L. S. B. Leakey

Publisher: Methuen & Co., 1955 (reprint)

Pages: 152

Dimensions: ± 19 cm x 13 cm

Hardcover with dustjacket. Fair condition. Binding intact. Black cover boards well kept. Dust jacket with several tears and missing sections. Stained front & back covers. Pages tanned with age spots.