Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-3937-8495
Abstract
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 itself. This article engages both foundational and recent scholarship in this vein in order to identify the set of assumptions that has shaped these debates and point toward new ways of thinking beyond them. In pursuance of new avenues in the study of global memories of Mau Mau, it also attempts a more capacious (though limited) inquiry by showing how the common thread of “Land and Freedom” has been understood transnationally across traditions of remembering the movement.
Recommended Citation
Alvarado, Christian
(2025)
"“Ghosts at the Banquet”: The Kenyan Mau Mau In Global Memory,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
46, Article 15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2164
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss46/15
