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Mau Maus Daughter : A Life History / Wambui Waiyaki Otieno.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Otieno, Wambui Waiyaki, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, Kenyan activist and wife of the late S.M. Otieno, recounts her personal involvement in nearly a half-century of East African politics: her years in the Mau Mau movement, her role in women’s organizations under the Kenyatta and the Moi regimes, and the controversy surrounding her husband’s burial.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword: A Critique of the Postcolony of Kenya
- Introduction: Memory Is a Weapon
- 1 Family Origins
- 2 Childhood
- 3 Early Days in the Mau Mau Movement
- 4 Party Politics in Nairobi
- 5 Detention at Lamu
- 6 Release and Marriage to S.M. Otieno
- 7 Gender and Politics
- 8 S. M. Otieno's Death and Joash Ochieng's Betrayal
- 9 The Burial Saga
- 10 The Biography of S.M. Otieno
- 11 State Trickery
- 12 Planting the Seeds of Freedom
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Key Events
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Book
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-68585-916-X
- OCLC:
- 1334344632
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