"GHOSTS AT THE BANQUET": The Kenyan Mau Mau In Global Memory.
In the decades since Kenyan independence from British rule, scholarship regarding memory of the Mau Mau Uprising has been bound by its nationalisms. "Nationalism" in the plural is apt because of the ways of remembering Mau Mau. It has investigated pressing issues in both Kenya and Great Britain itse...
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Kritika Kultura
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