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dc.contributor.authorWairimu, Lucy Waithanwa
dc.contributor.authorMwaruvie, John
dc.contributor.authorMaina, Lucy Muthoni
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-05T08:13:24Z
dc.date.available2018-10-05T08:13:24Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Innovative Research & Development, April, 2017 Vol 6 Issue 4en_US
dc.identifier.issn2278 – 0211
dc.identifier.urihttps://karuspace.karu.ac.ke/handle/20.500.12092/2156
dc.description10.24940en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the personal experiences of Gakaara wa Wanjau that influenced his political literary activism during the colonial period. The paper is informed by Relative Deprivation Theory. It demonstrates that Gakaara wa Wanjau was “The Chief Mau Mau Propagandist” as the British colonial authorities termed him. The paper opines that literary activism was crucial to the struggle for the attainment of the independence of Kenya. His literary works and collection of songs shaped the political consciousness of the Mau Mau fighters. The study concludes that he was a unique literary political activist who was able to take advantage of his contemporary issues to try to decolonize the African mind. Material for the article is derived from existing works, archival research and oral interviews. The study contributes to the enriching of the Mau Mau historiography in Kenyaen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Innovative Research & Developmenten_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectcolonialisten_US
dc.subjectcommunityen_US
dc.subjectdecolonizeen_US
dc.subjectfreedom struggleen_US
dc.subjectpolitical consciousnessen_US
dc.subjectunityen_US
dc.titleThe Chief Mau Mau Propagandist: Experiences that Prompted Gakaara wa Wanjau into Anti-Colonial Literary Activismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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