Basic outline on Mau Mau insurgencies and Bibliography *Do not Copy*

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Topic: Mau Mau Rebellion

Thesis: Throughout the course of the “Mau Mau insurgency” the British were overzealous in their use of propaganda, torture, and “reform” of the Kenyan people.

I.                   Propaganda

a.       The Mau Mau (mostly Kikuyu peoples) are “terrorists”

b.      The rebellion is a “Mau Mau disease”

II.                Torture

a.       Concentration camps for Kenyans, especially Kikuyu people

b.      Beatings, acid splash, and  labor camps were the preferred methods of punishment and torture

III.             “Reform”

a.       Schools were closed to stop the adults from “infecting” the children

b.      “Mental rehabilitation” for the Kikuyu peoples

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Merry M. Merryfield and Josiah Tlou. "The Process of Africanizing the Social Sudies:

Perspectives from Post-independence Curricular Reform in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe," The Social Studies 86, no. 6 (November/December 1995): 260.

Patrick Monkhouse, "Cleansing Kenya Schools," The Manchester Guardian (Manchester, England), November 15, 1952, 1, ProQuest Historical Newspapers the Guardian and the Observer.

                Evan Mwangi, "The Incomplete Rebellion: Mau Mau Movement in Twenty-first-century

Kenyan Popular Culture," Africa Today, Winter 2010, p86, General OneFile.

                Zarina Patel, "Mau Mau Raw British Brutality." New African, August/September 2009, p28, General OneFile, 2009.

The Manchester Guardian (Manchester, England). <http://hn.bigchalk.com/hnweb/hn/do/search> (accessed March 12 2013)

Reuter. "Crime-Wave in Kenya." The Manchester Guardian (Manchester, England), August 22 1952, p7 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Guardian and

The Observer .

Lawrence H. Martin, "Safari in the Age of Kenyatta." The Hemmingway Review 25,
no. 2 (Spring 2006) p101. < http://go.galegroup.com/> (accessed March 12 2013)

Associated Press, “300 Arrests at Kenya Meeting,” The Observer, November 9 1952, p1,  ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Guardian and The Observer.

Patrick Monkhouse, “Reforms for Kikuyu; ‘Special Area’ Proposed,” The Manchester Guardian, November 7 1952, p1, <http://hn.bigchalk.com>, ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Guardian and The Observer (accessed March 12 2013).

Ass. Press, “Terrorism Linked to Kenya Schools,” New York Times, November 15 1952, p3, <http://hn.bigchalk.com> ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (accessed March 12 2013).