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Routledge Library Editions

DEFEATING MAU MAU

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Routledge Library Editions
Anthropology and Ethnography

AFRICA

In 26 Volumes

I	Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa	Beattie & Middleton
II	Custom & Politics in Urban Africa	Cohen
III	Urban Ethnicity	Cohen
IV	Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa	Gluckman
V	Death, Property and the Ancestors	Goody
VI	The Family Estate in Africa	Gray & Gulliver
VII	Tradition and Transition in East Africa	Gulliver
VIII	The Human Factor in Changing Africa	Herskovits
IX	African Ecology and Human Evolution	Howell & Bourlire
X	The Nandi of Kenya	Huntingford
XI	Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya	Karp
XII	The Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander	Hallett
XIII	Defeating Mau Mau	Leakey
XIV	Mau Mau and the Kikuyu	Leakey
XV	Urbanization as a Social Process	Little
XVI	Family and Social Change in an African City	Marris
XVII	Widows and their Families	Marris
XVIII	Tribes without Rulers	Middleton & Tait
XIX	Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward	Parkin
XX	The Last Trek	Patterson
XXI	Women of Tropical Africa	Paulme
XXII	Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe	Richards
XXIII	Leopards and Leaders	Ruel
XXIV	Western Civilization and the Natives of South Africa	Schapera
XXV	East African Societies	Shorter
XXVI	The Samburu	Spencer

DEFEATING MAU MAU

L S B LEAKEY

First published in 1954

Reprinted in 2004 by

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Defeating Mau Mau

ISBN 978-0-415-32992-7

ISBN 978-1-136-53080-7 (ePub)

Miniset: Africa

Series: Routledge Library Editions Anthropology and Ethnography

Printed and bound by CPI Antony Rowe, Eastbourne

DEFEATING
MAU MAU

L. S. B. LEAKEY

First Published November 25th, 1954

Reprinted 1955

1.2

CATALOGUE NO. 5751/U

PREFACE

Mau Mau is losing ground rapidly with the masses of the Kikuyu, but it would be foolish to attempt to predict when it will be completely defeated.

The means of defeating it are not only the use of arms manpower and physical warfare. Much more depends upon a full understanding of the reason why Mau Mau obtained such a hold on the people, how it was organised, and what must be done to alter the minds of the people who have been seduced by its false promises, and upon removing genuine grievances and causes of discontent.

Very serious consideration must also be given to the fact that Mau Mau became a religion and that other beliefs must now be made available to take the place of Mau Mau-ism, which is being abandoned by many who joined the movement.

While I am sure that the simple teachings of Christ can provide the answer for this, I am less sure that the Churches will be willing to free themselves from so much which is in their rules and which goes beyond fundamental Christianity. Some of these things have in the past been a stumbling block to many Africans who sincerely wished to follow Christ.

In this new book I have tried to provide material that will help to defeat Mau Mau, heal the mental wounds that have been inflicted upon all races in Kenya, and prevent similar outbreaks in the future.

While this book is complete in itself, a fuller picture can be obtained by also reading my earlier work Mau Mau and the Kikuyu in which I dealt with the background of Mau Mau.

L.S.B.L

CONTENTS

Chapter

When I wrote Mau Mau and the Kikuyu at the end of 1952, the State of Emergency in Kenya Colony had only recently been declared and the aim of that book was to give my readers an idea of the background against which the Mau Mau organisation and its deeds must be viewed, in order to be properly understood.

Now the fight against Mau Mau has been in progress for nearly two years and it is unfortunately true that very few people, outside Kenya, seem to realise what is really happening. Only major events, at relatively rare intervals, now figure in the world press, together with dissertations of varying length and widely different viewpoints, written by journalists and others, mostly after relatively brief visits to Kenya. Even the local newspapers report only a proportion of the daily incidents.

From time to time, in answer to questions in the House of Commons, a general statement of the position is made and some of the statistical facts about the number of killed, captured, imprisoned, and detained is given. These stark figures do go to show the terrible reality of the fight against Mau Mau, but even they are often misinterpreted by people outside Kenya, because of a lack of background against which they can be seen in their true perspective.

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