Mau Mau: An African Crucible
Robert B. Edgerton. Ballantine Books, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-36978-9
``Edgerton explains the racially superior attitudes and practices of Kenya's whites that provoked the Mau Mau intimidation. . . . Many of the rebels were ordinary people who did not commit brutal acts but fought as well for political freedom, economic opportunity and social justice,'' PW discovered in this ``skillful'' examination of the 1952-1956 Kikuyu rebellion against British settlers . Photos. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 01/01/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 298 pages - 978-0-02-908920-0