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Dedan Kimathi on trial : colonial justice and Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion / edited by Julie MacArthur ; introductory note by Hon. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga ; foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; Number 17.
- Ohio University research in international studies.
- Ohio University Research in International Studies
- Global and Comparative Studies Series ; Number 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kimathi, Dedan, 1920-1957--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Kimathi, Dedan.
- Mau Mau--History.
- Mau Mau.
- Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
- Kenya.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Long thought lost, hidden, or destroyed, the transcript of Mau Mau anticolonial revolutionary Dedan Kimathi's 1956 trial during British colonial rule unsettles an already controversial event in Kenya's history and prompts fresh examinations of its reverberations in the postcolonial present.
- Contents:
- Introductory note / Hon. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga
- Foreword / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo and Micere Githae Mugo
- Introduction: The trial of Dedan Kimathi / Julie MacArthur
- Primary documents
- Trial of Dedan Kimathi
- Judgment
- Appeal to the Court of appeals for Eastern Africa
- Appeal to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Interrogation report of Dedan Kimathi
- Select letters and exhibits from the trial
- Final letter from Dedan Kimathi to Father Marino
- Critical essays
- Mau Mau on trial : Dedan Kimathi's prosecution and Kenya's colonial justice / David M. Anderson
- Mau Mau's debates on trial / John M. Lonsdale
- Unfolding of Britain's and Kenya's complex tango : an uneasy revisit to a critical past and its implications / Nicholas Githuku
- Dedan Kimathi : the floating signifier and the missing body / Simon Gikandi
- Memorialization and Mau Mau : a critical review / Lotte Hughes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-89680-501-8
- OCLC:
- 1014329458
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