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Title:The Enemy Within: Loyalists and the War against Mau Mau in Kenya
Author:Branch, DanielISNI
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]
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