John Lonsdale


John Lonsdale is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.


Author of…

Cover of Unhappy Valley

Unhappy Valley

Clan, Class & State In Colonial Kenya

This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the authors have been exploring since 1976.…

Editor of…

Cover of Mau Mau and Nationhood

Mau Mau and NationhoodOn Sale

Arms, Authority, and Narration

Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency, Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. Mau Mau and Nationhood is a collection of essays providing the most recent thinking on the uprising and its aftermath.…

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