Mau Mau’s Children: The Making of Kenya’s Postcolonial Elite
by David P. Sandgren foreword by Thomas Spear
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-299-28784-9 | eISBN: 978-0-299-28783-2 Library of Congress Classification DT433.582.A2S26 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896395400922
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of post colonial elites.
In Mau Mau’s Children, Sandgren has reconnects with these former students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first postcolonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews, Mau Mau’s Children shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu ethnicity on his students' path to success.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David P. Sandgren is professor of history at Concordia College–Moorhead in Minnesota. He is the author of Christianity and the Kikuyu: Religious Divisions and Social Conflict.
REVIEWS
“Mau Mau’s Children provides insights that are vivid and important and that are not available elsewhere in literature.”—Richard Waller, Bucknell University
“The commentary is fascinating and lucid, and the overall result is original and highly informative.”—Choice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Thomas Spear
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Late Colonial Childhoods
2 Entering Secondary Education
3 Confronting the Cambridge Exams
4 Making a Career
5 Entering an Economic Elite
6 Personal Life in Elite Circles
7 Reflections on the Next Generation
Appendix: Cohort Profiles
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Mau Mau’s Children: The Making of Kenya’s Postcolonial Elite
by David P. Sandgren foreword by Thomas Spear
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-299-28784-9 eISBN: 978-0-299-28783-2
In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of post colonial elites.
In Mau Mau’s Children, Sandgren has reconnects with these former students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first postcolonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews, Mau Mau’s Children shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu ethnicity on his students' path to success.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David P. Sandgren is professor of history at Concordia College–Moorhead in Minnesota. He is the author of Christianity and the Kikuyu: Religious Divisions and Social Conflict.
REVIEWS
“Mau Mau’s Children provides insights that are vivid and important and that are not available elsewhere in literature.”—Richard Waller, Bucknell University
“The commentary is fascinating and lucid, and the overall result is original and highly informative.”—Choice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Thomas Spear
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Late Colonial Childhoods
2 Entering Secondary Education
3 Confronting the Cambridge Exams
4 Making a Career
5 Entering an Economic Elite
6 Personal Life in Elite Circles
7 Reflections on the Next Generation
Appendix: Cohort Profiles
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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