| Description |
1 online resource (434 pages) |
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Africa in World History |
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Africa in world history.
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| Contents |
Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; Part 1: How I Grew; We Were Wearing Skins; Our Good Things Were Called Evil; My Message Came through Measles; No Longer a Boy; A Time When Hitler Laughed; Part 2: Black Market; Paid from the Center; Somebody to Help Me; These Africans Are Not Fearing Now; Timber; The Emergency; The Shot You Have Heard; Part 3: The Forest; A Violent Rainstorm Blames the Wind; The One Who Dug the Hole Is the One Who Fell In; Die without Noise; Take Him to Kimathi; "The Year of Mau Mau"; Part 4: Uhuru; Surrender; Eating Sand; Kenyatta Won't Come to Manyani |
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Following the PipelineI Was Fearing Politics; Who Was First Becomes Last; Part 5: Wazeehood; "Forget the Past"; I Will Stop Dancing When I See My Child Coming to Dance; Too Much of Anything Is Poisonous; Nothing Culture; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Jesca and The General's Children and Grandchildren; Abbreviations; Glossary; Further Reading; index |
| Summary |
A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed suit, crisp tie, and freshly polished shoes. For most of the last four decades, however, he dressed for work in the primary school classroom and on his lush t |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Thambu, Japhlet, 1922-2014.
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Mau Mau -- Biography
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Mau Mau fast |
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Generals -- Kenya -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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Generals
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| SUBJECT |
Kenya -- History -- 20th century
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Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007004
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| Subject |
Kenya
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780896804883 |
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0896804887 |
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