Colonialism in Kenya

Colonial Inscriptions Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya Carolyn Martin Shaw In Kenyan colonialist imagery, the Kikuyu were vilified as deceitful servants while the Maasai were romanticized as noble savages in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, as well as in novels and films. Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley, …

…One of the most important works to emerge in recent African scholarship. Written with elegance, it does not shy away from theoretical sophistication. Concerned with texts that purport to a scientific rationality, it does not ignore their 'poetry.' Passionately engaged with issues of race and particularly of gender, it does not reduce these to the tired binarisms that often beleaguer earlier modes of postcolonial criticism. A sympathetic and inspiring work." Research in African Literatures