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The Boy Is Gone : Conversations with a Mau Mau General.
A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Africa in world history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; Part 1: How I Grew; We Were Wearing Skins; Our Good Things Were Called Evil; My Message Came through Measles; No Longer a Boy; A Time When Hitler Laughed; Part 2: Black Market; Paid from the Center; Somebody to Help Me; These Africans Are Not Fearing Now; Timber; The Emergency; The Shot You Have Heard; Part 3: The Forest; A Violent Rainstorm Blames the Wind; The One Who Dug the Hole Is the One Who Fell In; Die without Noise; Take Him to Kimathi; "The Year of Mau Mau"; Part 4: Uhuru; Surrender; Eating Sand; Kenyatta Won't Come to Manyani.
- Following the PipelineI Was Fearing Politics; Who Was First Becomes Last; Part 5: Wazeehood; "Forget the Past"; I Will Stop Dancing When I See My Child Coming to Dance; Too Much of Anything Is Poisonous; Nothing Culture; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Jesca and The General's Children and Grandchildren; Abbreviations; Glossary; Further Reading; index.