The Department of History and Archaeology successfully hosted the second in a number of series of seminars dubbed "Muted Histories" . The seminar was held in a blended mode with the speaker of the Day and a physical audience being at the UoN Towers, 4th Floor room MLT 03 while an online audience was participating via Zoom. The event was held on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 2.30 pm.
Mr. Niels Boender presented his research on the Topic: A plethora of potentially subversive activity’: Wanjohi Mungau, ‘neo-Mau Mau’ and the local politics of Uhuru in Nyeri, 1959-1965. The presentation hoped to begin filling the historical gap between the end of the Mau Mau Uprising and Kenya’s post-colonial settlement. Hereby, the talk would unmute some of the silences which surround the local politics of Kenya’s struggle for independence and the role of former Mau Mau, loyalists and others in defining the meaning of Uhuru. It also sought to trace how the counter-insurgency project of late-colonialism was embedded and resisted in the years before independence.
Niels Boender is a AHRC Collaborative-PhD Student at the University of Warwick working with the Imperial War Museum on the Legacies of the Mau Mau Conflict in Kenya. He has a MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge and a BA in History from the University of York.
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