Mau Mau from within

"The book is made up of remote autobiography of Karari Njama. JAMA, whose memory (his papers were lost in fleeing the British forces that eventually captured him) is positively awe-inspiring was important leader of the forest-based careers from his account we can see the emergence of an increasingly broad scope organisation of the revolutionary fighters and the disintegration of that organisation through factional strife and British repression. Barnett's contribution to this volume is a chapter by chapter analysis and summary of Njama's account together with the occasional addition of further information from six other life histories he collected during his 18 months among the Kikuyu. Barnet's main interest was the structure and organisation of the guerrilla forces and most of his analysis is devoted to examining organisational questions. A main point of the analysis of the territorial basis for the organisation's fighting groups is the problem of forming and maintaining unity Barnett discusses the movement's ideology and with emphasis on knitting together of traditional Kikuyu and European derived elements"--