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Title: | The Enemy Within: Loyalists and the War against Mau Mau in Kenya |
Author: | Branch, Daniel |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 291-315 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Great Britain |
Subjects: | Mau Mau political conflicts colonial history Ethnic and Race Relations colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4501043 |
Abstract: | Between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government of Kenya waged a violent counter-insurgency campaign against the Mau Mau rebels. In this effort the regime was assisted by collaborators, known as loyalists, drawn from the same communities as the insurgents. Based primarily on new archival sources, this article sets out the history of loyalism, stresses the ambiguity of allegiances during the conflict and argues that loyalism was a product of the same intellectual debates that had spawned the Mau Mau insurgency. The article concludes by stressing the significance for postcolonial Kenya of this history. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |