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Feminism in the Mau Mau Resurgence

University of Toronto, Canada, lbronhi{at}uoguelph.ca

Terisa E. Turner

University of Guelph, Canada, terisatu{at}uoguelph.ca

We argue that there is a resurgence of Mau Mau in Kenya and that at its forefront are the demands and actions of landless women. The Mau Mau war against colonialism inspired millions in their struggles during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The continuation of the anti-imperial struggle on the African continent in the 1980s and 1990s expanded into the anti-corporate globalization movement of the 2000s. The gendered demands for communal land and autonomous production during the 1952-60 Mau Mau war were suppressed by compromises or "male deals." The subsistence voices of land-poor women and dispossessed men were silenced in the 1950s and again in the 1980s by the elite clamor for commodified land and crops. Widespread landlessness has produced a new Mau Mau, which asserts a feminist life economy.

Key Words: colonialism • feminism • Kenya • Mau Mau

Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 95-117 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0021909604048253


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