Mau Mau crucible of war: Statehood, national identity and politics in postcolonial Kenya

Githuku, Nicholas

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“…An op‐ed described it as “a campaign on … general ethics in the country” (Mzalendo 2015). This approach continues Mwangi's previous work, a photography exhibit depicting the gruesome carnage of the 2008 postelection violence, which traveled across the country to educate citizens about the perils of interethnic hate (Githuku 2016, 438–46). Similarly, Diaper Mentality means to shock with its revelatory gesture: it invites citizens to contemplate broken layers of their everyday.…”

Section: Intimate Exposures Queer Objects and Good Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 55%

Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya

Meiu

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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In Kenya in recent years, diapers have played a central role in anti-homosexual discourses, suggesting that anal sex results in chronic bodily incontinence. But rumors about adults in diapers do not pertain only to homosexuality. They also describe bodily ruptures resulting from sex work, illicit moneymaking practices, and “immorality,” more generally. This article explores how the resonances between different deployments of diapers help constitute the homosexual body as a target of outrage, violence, and exclusion. I argue that rumors about adults in diapers identify and expose national threats in the hidden layers of intimate life to produce good citizenship. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work, I approach diapers as “queer objects,” because they offer an alternative entry point into discussions of intimate citizenship: they bracket the reified category of the homosexual and demonstrate how sentiments associated with homophobia emerge in a wider set of struggles with bodies, work, respectability, and progress. Muhtasari Katika mazumgumzo juu ya kuzuiia gayism (ushoga) nchini Kenya, imekuwa kawaida kusema kwamba ngono ya nyuma inasabibisha watu wazima wavae ‘pampers’ (nepi). Lakini uvumi huu hauhusu gayism peke yake tu. Uvumi juu ya nepi hurejelea pia nyufa za mwili zinazosabibishwa na ukahaba, mazoea ya kutafuta pesa haramu, na aina zingine za "uasherati." Makala hii inatafiti maana tofauti ya nepi katika mazumgumzo ya kila siku kwa ajiji ya kuelewa vile maana hayo yanaathiri maoni kuhusu gayism. Ninaonyesha vile uvumi juu ya watu wazima wanaovaa nepi wanafunua mahatari katika “tabaka zinazofichwa” za maisha ya kila siku nchini. Nepi ndiyo vitu vinavyotusaidia kuelewa uhusiano kati ya uraia na ujinsia. Kwa sababu hayo, ninafuata maandishi ya Sara Ahmed kusema kwamba nepi kuwa “vitu queer:” yaani, vitu vinavyoonyesha kwamba mapambano na afya ya miili, kazi, heshima, na maendeleo yanaweza kuunda chuki ya ushoga.

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Section: Intimate Exposures Queer Objects and Good Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 55%

Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya

Meiu

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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“…22 The wind of change also led to a gory encounter between the government and Mau Mau fighters agitating for freedom and the return of their 'stolen' land that Britain had expropriated and given to European settlers as an incentive to induce them to settle and farm in Kenya. The Mau Mau war has received extensive scholarly attention and will not be rehashed here (Githuku 2015;Koster 2016;Elkins 2005;Branch 2009). In passing, however, I should point out that the war occupied the minds of British officials in the colony and in London, including European settlers who feared for their lives and safety and asked the government to spare no resources in dealing with 'these thugs'.…”

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7 - Cinema and Wage Labour in Colonial Kenya

Ndanyi¹

2022

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In the early 1920s, the first generation of African nationalists in colonial Kenya rejected capitalism and called for its abolition. The ‘agitators’ demanded that women and girls be exempted from compulsory labour and taxation. ‘Riots’ against the two most essential pillars of capitalism – labour and taxes – erupted in Nairobi, and the agitators paid for the agitation dearly, some with their lives. Responding swiftly and violently against an unorganised assembly consisting of low-wage workers, the British government in Kenya made a bloodbath out of the encounter by firing at men and women who, according to its own admission, were armed with sticks. The fallout was swift and immediate. First, it compelled the colonial administration in Nairobi to respond to a concerned international community that questioned its excessive use of force. Secondly, it influenced policy makers to replace force with a ‘soft approach’. This article is a labour history that employs instructional films produced in London for colonial subjects in the colonies, including Kenya, to shine a spotlight on the intersection of wage labour and cultural programmes for Africans.

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Afrika Zamani: n°27, 2019 - Full Issue

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2021

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Contents Études archéologiques du peuplement de la moyenne vallée du fleuve Sénégal : résultats depuis les années 90 Alioune Dème.......................................................................... 1 The “Middle Belt” Historiography of Resistance in Nigeria Samaila Suleiman.................................... 15 L’éclatement de la Haute-Volta et de la Côte d’Ivoire de 1932 à 1947 Joseph Abo Kobi ..........................45 Quand Abidjan était la plaque tournante de l’immigration clandestine africaine vers l’Europe (1960–1975) . Chikouna Cissé & Alassane Diabaté ..................................................... 61 Detention Without Trial, Deportation and Security Among the Kuriaof Tanzania, 1960s–1990s Iddy Ramadhani Magoti ....................................................................... 79 Essai d’explication des fondements de la marginalisation économiquedu Gadiaga (XXe–XXIe siècles) Abdou Karim Tandjigora .................................................................... 97 Cinema and Wage Labour in Colonial Kenya Samson Kaunga Ndanyi ................................................................. 119

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Mau Mau crucible of war: Statehood, national identity and politics in postcolonial Kenya

Abstract: Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciencesat West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Cited by 4 publications

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Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya

Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya

7 - Cinema and Wage Labour in Colonial Kenya

Afrika Zamani: n°27, 2019 - Full Issue

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