Fills a large gap in the colonial history of Kenyan women as they negotiated changes in the most domestic areas of their experience. Shows how African and British male authorities tried to control female initiatives, and how women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives. Index, bib, glossary, 12 b/w photos, 268pp, UK. CURREY PUBLISHERS, JAMES.

In 1977 the Kenyan government banned all hunting, whether by sportsmen or Kenyan Africans, in response to the poaching crisis that was then spreading across the African continent. This brought an end to the era of the 'Great White Hunters' in this 'sportsman's paradise'. This book traces the history of hunting during Kenya's colonial era from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Three main themes emerge: first, is the importance of hunting to Kenyan farmers and herders; second is the attempt during European colonization of Kenya to recreate in Africa the practices and values of nineteenth-century European aristocratic hunts, which reinforced an image of African inferiority and subordination; third, is the role of the conservation-ists, who claimed sovereignty over nature and wildlife, completing the transformation of African hunters into criminal poachers. Index, bib, b/w illus, 248pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Now in paperback. Britain's response to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya was to detain almost the entire Kikuyu population in camps, where thousands died of disease and starvation. Elkins uncovers the lives of those who experienced this firsthand, critically framing their accounts in the colonial relationship with Britain. Index, bib, notes, app, b/w illus, maps, xiv, 475pp, UK. PIMLICO.

Analyses the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic tradition and its technologies. BNS, 272pp, USA. GREENWOOD PUBLISHING GROUP, 0313320039

The story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presenting an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining the social and economic causes of the Kikuyu revolt. Index, bib, notes, xvi, 304pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852550243

1987 Paperback

A history charting administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya, revealing an idiosyncratic and Spartan welfare system. The author also shows the transformation from social welfare to community development leading to further neglect of the very poor. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Index, bib, notes, maps, 393pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 085255785X

Now in paperback. A history of the Mau Mau rebellion during which 70 000 Africans were held in detention camps without trial and over 1800 Kenyan civilians died. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and court records the author describes a story of mass killings and collective punish-ments during Britain's first war on terror. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Index, notes, apps, viii, 406pp, UK. PHOENIX.

Relates events leading from Kenya's colonization through its emergence as an independent country. Beginning with the advent of Europeans in the late Nineteenth Century, it presents Kenya as a land of contrasts in geography as well as people. Home to Arabs, Indians and Europeans as well as various African tribes, Kenya experienced strife throughout its colonial history. Gatheru discusses the viewpoint of the Kenyan people, enumerating the events and attitudes that led to the eruption of violence. Covers are the economic, political and social policies Britain established toward its colonials. The role of Kenyan reform leaders such as Harry Thuku and Jomo Kenyatta in the countrys struggle for independence is also examined. Index, bib, notes, 236pp, USA. McFARLAND & COMPANY.

History of Kenya from earliest colonial times until 1963, with a focus on the Kikuyu people. Index, bib, b/w photos, 359pp, UK. MAWENZI BOOKS.

'Anyone looking for an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible single-volume text to introduce the Mau Mau movement and its part in Kenya's nationalism and independence to an undergraduate readership need look no further'. John Lonsdale, International Journal of African Historical Studies. Notes, bib, index, 238pp, UK & USA. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. The twelve essays in this new collection combine retrospective overviews with fresh research to achieve a multi-layered analysis of an enduring topic. Photos, maps, bib, index, notes, 306pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852554842

Drawing on original field notes from her time in Kenya, the author reconstructs a portrait of the diverse nature of Mau Mau movements among the Kikuyu. Index, tables, bib, xxx, 352pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Tells the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, she describes the many intrigues surrounding two enforced moves that cleared the highlands for European settlers, and a 1913 lawsuit in which the Maasai attempted to reclaim their former territory, and explains why recent events have brought the story full circle. Index, bib, apps, 264pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Reviews the history of higher education in Kenya and details the emergence of private universities, most of them with a Christian religious orientation, as major players in the provision of tertiary-level education. 204pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930s adapted British ideas to the colonial environment. In all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the history of eugenic thought in Kenya, the books shows how the movement took on a distinctive colonial character, driven by settler political preoccupations and reacting to increasingly outspoken African demands for better, and more independent, education. 256pp, UK. MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An investigation of the history of colonial Kenya and colonialism in Africa. The author look at the development of the colonial state, African states and European capitalism and the creation of ethnicity and class formation in Africa. The authors also explore Mau Mau and Kikuyu political thought. Book one discusses in particular the history of political science in the context of Kenya's colonial history. Index, notes, maps, gloss, xvi, 223pp, viii, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS,

An investigation of the history of colonial Kenya and colonialism in Africa. The author look at the development of the colonial state, African states and European capitalism and the creation of ethnicity and class formation in Africa. The authors also explore Mau Mau and Kikuyu political thought. Book two looks at political and popular consciousness, revolutionary change and the subtle realities of ethnicity. Index, notes, maps, gloss, xvi, 281pp, viii, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS,