Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Jomo Kenyatta
Standard Name: Kenyatta, Jomo
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Elspeth Huxley | Ten years after her Cornell studies, in October-December 1937, EH
took a course in anthopology at the |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elspeth Huxley | In about 1935 EH
began to plan a book purely about the Africans, which would be in large part an argument against the anti-colonial views of Margery Perham
. |
| Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | It was strongly influenced by the Mau Mau
struggle. Chatto and Windus
had their lawyer Michael Rubinstein
vet the script, and he advised bringing in Jomo Kenyatta
by name, so that he could not be... |
| Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | Because of her mother's impending retirement, EH
meant this to be her last book on Kenya. It was to mix travel with politics in the manner of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and A New Earth... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elspeth Huxley | In a diary she kept on this journey EH
reported on white-settler farmhouses standing empty surrounded by new huts, women with loads on their heads replacing lorries and trailers, trees and whole forests being burned... |
Timeline
12 December 1963
Kenya became independent within the Commonwealth; its first Prime Minister (following elections in May) was Jomo Kenyatta
, who had been released from imprisonment on 14 August 1961.
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