The Intellectual Lives of Mau Mau Detainees

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8979503
AutoresDerek R Peterson (0000-0002-8653-7233, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas73-91
Fecha de publicación2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853708003411
OpenAlexW2154224477
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas1

This article illuminates the creative intellectual and social projects in which Mau Mau detainees were engaged. It draws on the private papers of Gakaara wa Wanjau, a Gikuyu writer who during his eight years of detention composed several plays, wrote ethnography and poetry, and carried on an extensive correspondence with his family. Gakaara and other detainees were doing more than defending a Mau Mau ideology. They were opening up new ways of doing Gikuyu culture, holding wives and children accountable, and representing themselves to a British public that could, they hoped, be brought round to their side

Art · Ethnography · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Migration, Refugees, and Integration