Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945–1953

“This is the first full–length study of Kenya’s post–war crisis, the seed–bed of Mau Mau. The scholarship is encyclopaedic, the writing sharp and the analysis clear. What we have is a tragedy in the classic sense, with passionate visions of the future held by rulers and people locked in a conflict which could only be resolved by violence.” -- John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge