Reviews

...immaculately researched, well-written and utterly persuasive. - Richard Rathbone in
*THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT*

This is the first full-length study of Kenya's post-war crisis, the seed-bed of Mau Mau. The scholarship is encyclopaedic, the writing sharp and the analysis clear. What we have is a tragedy in the classic sense, with passionate visions of the future held by rulers and people locked in a conflict which could only be resolved by violence. -
*John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge*