Introduction: Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in Colonial Context -- Domination and Its Resistance: Writings on Mau Mau -- Rebel Yell: The Field Marshall's Story -- Women and Mau Mau -- Mau Mau and the Critique of Nationalism -- Writings as Subversion: Ngui wa Thiongo's Mau Mau -- Mau Mua in/as Colonial Discourse -- The Subaltern Writes Back -- Conclusion: Towards a Presentist Approach to Mau Mau
Summary
This offers an alternative to the colonialist and nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective
