Reflections on Mau Mau w/ Shiraz Durrani (AR&D Ep. 4)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we continue our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization with a brilliant supplement reflecting on the Mau Mau Uprising. Here, Shiraz Durrani goes through the history and its implications of the uprising, in a really fascinating and useful conversation! This is a brilliant companion to our previous episode in the series, The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi, which you should also check out if you have not done so. Be sure to share this series with comrades, we are still in the very early phases of the planned ~40 parts, so it is a great time for them to start listening in as well!

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Shiraz Durrani is a Kenyan writer who has written expensively on Mau Mau, as well as other aspects of Kenyan history. You can follow him on twitter @sinahabari, and check out many of his articles here, as well as his numerous books here.

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0:00.0	Dear guerrilla history listeners, this is co-host Henry with a very small note for you before we
0:05.2	get into this episode of guerrilla history, and specifically, this episode is part of our
0:10.6	ongoing African revolutions and decolonization series. When we originally recorded this
0:16.2	episode, which is an excellent episode in a really fantastic conversation, reflections on the Mau Mau Mau with Shiraz Durrani.
0:24.6	When we originally recorded it, we were planning on this episode being our case study on the Mao Mao uprising.
0:31.3	However, when we finished recording the episode, Adnan and I had a small conversation,
0:35.8	and we discussed the fact that while this conversation
0:38.9	is really excellent and there's a lot to learn from it, it's more of a reflections of the
0:43.9	Mau Maui Uprising than a case study of the Mau Mau Mau Uprising in our estimation.
0:49.9	As such, we recorded a second conversation which came out two weeks ago with Nicholas Mwangi
0:55.4	a case study of the Mau Maui uprising. If you haven't already heard that episode, we highly
1:01.3	recommend that you go back and listen to that. It was a really fascinating case study on the
1:05.8	Maumau uprising. This episode is a terrific supplement to that episode and and as such, we're releasing it as the
1:13.2	supplemental episode within our series for the Mao-Mao period. These two episodes go together
1:18.7	extremely well, but this note is necessary because there are a few times throughout the
1:23.4	episode where we refer to the fact that this episode that you are going to be listening to
1:28.5	is the case study on Mau Mau, and it was recorded as such. Now, again, that doesn't take
1:35.1	anything away from the episode, and you certainly will get a lot from it. Just understand that
1:39.0	when we originally recorded it, we were planning on it being the case study, but in actuality,
1:43.8	it ended up being
1:44.8	the supplemental episode. So again, do go back and listen to that episode, the case study of
1:50.7	the Mau Mauro uprising with Nicholas Mwangi, which came out two weeks ago, and be sure to
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