Kenyatta and Britain An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963 /

• Main Author: Maloba, W. O. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Africa-Politics and government.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; African Politics.

This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta's formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British intelligence services and Kenyatta&#...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Two Trips and Petitions to the Center of the Empire
• 3. Spying on Political Activism
• 4. Pan Africanism, Discussions on Strategy for Liberation, Marriage and Surveillance
• 5. Back Home: Politics of Nationalism, Mau Mau, Prison and Surveillance
• 6. "Let Jomo Go": Defining and Framing a Symbol
• 7. The Search for Alternatives
• 8. The Turning Point: Kenyatta and Malcolm MacDonald.