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MAU MAU'S ARMY OF CLERKS: COLONIAL MILITARY SERVICE AND THE KENYA LAND FREEDOM ARMY IN KENYA'S NATIONAL IMAGINATION*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2017

TIMOTHY H. PARSONS
TIMOTHY H. PARSONS*
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis, Missouri
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Abstract

Scholarly and popular histories of Kenya largely agree that African Second World War veterans played a central role in the Kenya Land Freedom Army. Former African members of the colonial security forces have reinforced these assumptions by claiming to have been covert Mau Mau supporters, either after their discharge, or as serving soldiers. In reality, few Mau Mau generals had actual combat experience. Those who served in the colonial military usually did so in labor units or support arms. It therefore warrants asking why so many Kenyans accept that combat veterans played such a central role in the KLFA and in Kenyan history. Understanding how veterans of the colonial army have become national heroes, both for their wartime service and their supposed leadership of Mau Mau, reveals the capacity of popular history to create more useful and inclusive forms of African nationalism.

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KenyaEast Africahistoriographyindependence warsmilitarynationalism
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Decolonizing Kenya
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The Journal of African History , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , July 2017 , pp. 285 - 309
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Thanks to John Lonsdale and Derek Peterson for comments on this article. To the memory of John Nunneley, David Kimonyi Muoki, Stephen Savano Maveke, and all the other East African veterans of the Burma Campaign. Author's email: tparsons@wustl.edu

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