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Mau Maus Daughter : A Life History / Wambui Waiyaki Otieno.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685859169
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword: A Critique of the Postcolony of Kenya -- Introduction: Memory Is a Weapon -- 1 Family Origins -- 2 Childhood -- 3 Early Days in the Mau Mau Movement -- 4 Party Politics in Nairobi -- 5 Detention at Lamu -- 6 Release and Marriage to S.M. Otieno -- 7 Gender and Politics -- 8 S. M. Otieno's Death and Joash Ochieng's Betrayal -- 9 The Burial Saga -- 10 The Biography of S.M. Otieno -- 11 State Trickery -- 12 Planting the Seeds of Freedom -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Key Events -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Book
Summary: Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, Kenyan activist and wife of the late S.M. Otieno, recounts her personal involvement in nearly a half-century of East African politics: her years in the Mau Mau movement, her role in women’s organizations under the Kenyatta and the Moi regimes, and the controversy surrounding her husband’s burial.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword: A Critique of the Postcolony of Kenya -- Introduction: Memory Is a Weapon -- 1 Family Origins -- 2 Childhood -- 3 Early Days in the Mau Mau Movement -- 4 Party Politics in Nairobi -- 5 Detention at Lamu -- 6 Release and Marriage to S.M. Otieno -- 7 Gender and Politics -- 8 S. M. Otieno's Death and Joash Ochieng's Betrayal -- 9 The Burial Saga -- 10 The Biography of S.M. Otieno -- 11 State Trickery -- 12 Planting the Seeds of Freedom -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Key Events -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Book

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Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, Kenyan activist and wife of the late S.M. Otieno, recounts her personal involvement in nearly a half-century of East African politics: her years in the Mau Mau movement, her role in women’s organizations under the Kenyatta and the Moi regimes, and the controversy surrounding her husband’s burial.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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