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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299794603321

Autore

Maloba W. O

Titolo

Kenyatta and Britain : An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963 / / by W. O. Maloba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-50895-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 295 p.)

Collana

African Histories and Modernities, , 2634-5773

Disciplina

960

Soggetti

Africa, Sub-Saharan—History

Imperialism

Great Britain—History

Africa—Politics and government

History of Sub-Saharan Africa

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of Britain and Ireland

African Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Two Trips and Petitions to the Center of the Empire -- 3. Spying on Political Activism -- 4. Pan Africanism, Discussions on Strategy for Liberation, Marriage and Surveillance -- 5. Back Home: Politics of Nationalism, Mau Mau, Prison and Surveillance -- 6. "Let Jomo Go": Defining and Framing a Symbol -- 7. The Search for Alternatives -- 8. The Turning Point: Kenyatta and Malcolm MacDonald.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta’s formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British intelligence services and Kenyatta’s career and the political compromise he forged between Kenya and Britain. This book draws on primary sources to analyze this compromise, which marked his transformation from "leader to darkness and death" to the most beloved post-colonial African leader



in the West. .