The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Title | The Trial of Dedan Kimathi PDF eBook |
Author | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2013-10-11 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1478611707 |
Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his collaborator, Micere Githae Mugo, have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi’s life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights’ response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical “trial” at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is “an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement.”
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Title | Dedan Kimathi on Trial PDF eBook |
Author | Julie MacArthur |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2017-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0896805018 |
The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious Kenyan history and its reverberations in the postcolonial present. Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau Mau Rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant, modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Here, the entire trial transcript is available for the first time. This critical edition also includes provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by Willy Mutunga.
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Title | The Trial of Dedan Kimathi PDF eBook |
Author | Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo |
Publisher | Heinemann International Incorporated |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Drama |
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Ngugi and Micere Mugo have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the trial of one of the celebrated leaders of the Mau Mau revolution.
In the Fog of the Seasons' End
Title | In the Fog of the Seasons' End PDF eBook |
Author | Alex La Guma |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2012-09-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 147860932X |
La Gumas powerful, firsthand account depicts the dedicated South African people who risked their lives in the underground movement against apartheid. The main characters, Beukes and Elias, are among others determined to undermine apartheids blatant oppression and demeaning tactics. The authors knack for rich descriptions and weaving the past with the present transports readers to the grind of working in an underground political organization and the challenges of confronting hardships, change, and injustice on a daily basis.
THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI. BY NGUGI WA THIONG'O AND MICERE GITHAE MUGO.
Title | THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI. BY NGUGI WA THIONG'O AND MICERE GITHAE MUGO. PDF eBook |
Author | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780435901912 |
Kenya's Freedom Struggle
Title | Kenya's Freedom Struggle PDF eBook |
Author | Dedan Kimathi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
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The British captured extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau, which to this day have not been made public. Here for the first time, as a result of years of village - level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the movement's - and its leader, Dedan Kimathi's - most important papers. Translated in to English, they make startlingly clear movement's own perspectives on their struggle and its difficulties, the relatively advanced nature of their goals as a national liberation movement, and their radical visions of a liberated Kenyan society. Dedan Kimathi became President of Mau Mau's ruling body in August 1953 and remained its overall head until his capture and death two years later. He ordered the movement to keep documentation for the purpose of providing, as he put it, 'concentrate evidence that we fought and died for this land'. By recovering some of this material, Maina wa Kinyatti has done Kenyan history a signal service.
I Will Marry when I Want
Title | I Will Marry when I Want PDF eBook |
Author | Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo |
Publisher | Heinemann |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | African drama (English) |
ISBN | 9780435902469 |
This is the renowned play that was developed with Kikuyu villagers at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru.