Mau Mau from Below

• The settlement of Kiambu until the Kirika famine of 1835; from Kirika until the end of the 19th century; land ownership in the 20th century; the labour market for the local population; land, labour and living in the colonial era; the resistance of the elders; the resistance of the land poor and landless the beginning of Mau Mau; the emergency, Marige and the end of Mau Mau. Appendices: data, reliability and analysis; oral traditions; notes on Kiambu social organization; economic data; notes on the Kenya land commission report; notes on the Rift Valley; notes on local education; late 19th and 20th-century oaths; notes on Mau Mau; land consolidation and villagization.

... a unique account of Britain's most bloody war of decolonization... .More than any other writer on Mau Mau, Kershaw has captured and distilled its internecine complexity, in the process identifying why the wounds have taken so very long to heal...