Books by L S B Leakey
Mau Mau and the Kikuyu
by L S B Leakey
Louis Leakey was very interesting – a major intellectual figure in the history of paleoanthropology. He grew up in very close contact with the Kikuyu, but this book is squarely in the language of the time, which was that Mau Mau represented an atavism, that they had regressed back to their savage, pre-settled, pre-Christianised state and what was being unleashed was a kind of innate violence.
Interviews where books by L S B Leakey were recommended
The best books on The Mau Mau Uprising and The Fading Empire, recommended by Adam Foulds
British novelist and poet Adam Foulds discusses fading empire in the context of Kenya, including the horrors of British gulags, the Mau Mau uprising, and the social deprivation endured by the Kikuyu.
