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Index
Title page
Copyright
Contents
List of Maps and Tables
Photographic Insert
Prologue: The Hanged
1 The Hidden History of an Anti-Colonial Rebellion
Making a Rebellion
Emerging Violence
2 Burying the Past
Chief Waruhiu
Jock Scott and Judge Thacker
Going to War
Christmas Eve in Nyeri
3 ‘Parasites in Paradise’: Race, Violence and Mau Mau
‘A sunny land for shady people’
Killing Bwana
‘Them or us’
Paradise Postponed
4 Death at Lari: The Story of an African Massacre
Victims and Vengeance
A Deeper History
Courtroom Dramas
Executions
Colonial Consequences
5 Struggles in the City: Mau Mau in Nairobi
African Life in Eastlands
Terrorizing the Tai-tai
Operation Anvil
Fighting Back
Corruption at City Hall
6 General China’s War: Freedom Fighters in the Forests
Flight to the Forests
Bugles and Battles
Surrenders
Psycho Docs and Pseudo Ops
7 Crimes of Punishment: Law and Disorder in Kikuyuland
Carrots and Sticks
Ruthagathi: Kenya’s Belsen
Excessive Force
The Gulag
8 Spoils of War: Decolonizing Kenya, Memorializing Mau Mau
Coming Home
Kenyatta: ‘The Reconciler’
Monuments, Museums, Movies
Mathenge’s Return
Appendix: Tables
Notes
Glossary
Chronology
Acknowledgements
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