Publisher: The Mau Mau Research Center, Kenya
This book is a contribution to the interpretation of Kenyan
history, from the proletarian point of view. The book provides
information on the people of Kenya; their history; their violent, brutal
and deadly confrontation with the British imperialist invaders; their
social and politicial struggle against the British occupiers and the
national traitors; their transformation into the Mau Mau armed
resistance; and their class struggle and revolutionary movement against
the Kenyata and Moi neocolonial regimes. During dictator Moi’s
administration, the country was turned into a police state and the
brutal torture of citizens became commonplace. Whatever form of torture
one was subjected to, it inevitably led to either imprisonment or death.
In vigorous language and with concrete examples, the author details the
crucial role played by the Mwakenya-December Twelve Movement in the
struggle against the Kenyata-Moi dictatorships for democracy and social
justice in Kenya, from 1975 to 2002.
£61.00
About the author
Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ is a Kenyan Marxist historian and former political prisoner under Daniel arap Moi’s dictatorship. He is widely considered the foremost researcher on the Mau Mau in Kenya, one of the primary reasons that Kinyatti was arrested and imprisoned.
After being released from prison on 17 October 1988 (after serving six
and a half years, mostly in solitary confinement), he fled the country
to Tanzania, fearing a re-arrest by Moi’s government. After a month in
Dar es Salaam, Kinyatti was forced to apply for political asylum in the
US. Kinyatti was awarded the PEN Freedom to Write Award in 1988.
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