The Boy Is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General

by Laura Lee P. Huttenbach and Laura Lee Huttenbach

Book Overview

A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802914
• ISBN13: 9780896802919
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"