Dedan Kimathi on Trial : Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion /

Dedan Kimathi on Trial : Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion / edited by Julie MacArthur ; introductory note by Willy Mutunga ; foreword by Mĩcere Githae Mũgo and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017] - xxiii, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 17 . - Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 17. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-394) and index.

Introductory note / Hon. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga -- Foreword / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo and Micere Githae Mugo -- Introduction: The trial of Dedan Kimathi / Julie MacArthur -- Primary documents -- Trial of Dedan Kimathi -- Judgment -- Appeal to the Court of appeals for Eastern Africa -- Appeal to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom -- Interrogation report of Dedan Kimathi -- Select letters and exhibits from the trial -- Final letter from Dedan Kimathi to Father Marino -- Critical essays -- Mau Mau on trial : Dedan Kimathi's prosecution and Kenya's colonial justice / David M. Anderson -- Mau Mau's debates on trial / John M. Lonsdale -- Unfolding of Britain's and Kenya's complex tango : an uneasy revisit to a critical past and its implications / Nicholas Githuku -- Dedan Kimathi : the floating signifier and the missing body / Simon Gikandi -- Memorialization and Mau Mau : a critical review / Lotte Hughes.

9780896803169 (hc : alk. paper) 9780896803176 (pb : alk. paper)

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Kimathi, Dedan, 1920-1957 --Trials, litigation, etc.


Mau Mau--History.


Liberation


Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.

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