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The Myth of Mau Mau - The Myth of ‘Mau Mau’: Nationalism in Kenya. By Carl. G. RosbergJr, and John Nottingham. New York: Praeger for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, California, 1966. London: Pall Mall, 1967. Pp. xviii + 427. $7.50 or 55s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

George Bennett
Affiliation:
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford

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1 For this province see also the important Cambridge Ph.D. thesis by Lonsdale, J. M. ‘A political history of Nyanza, 1883–1945’ (1964).Google Scholar

2 I understand that Beuttah–this spelling is used by Odinga in Not yet Uhuru (1967)— now compares his name with that of General Mobutu.Google Scholar

3 For the full flavour of this see also the references to Ndemi and Mathathi in Kenyatta, J., Facing Mount Kenya (London, 1938).Google Scholar