{"title":"The Unfinished Task of National Liberation","authors":"Kinuthia Ndung'u","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Reflecting on the process of national liberation as a struggle against neo-colonialism, Kinuthia Ndung’u draws from Kinyatti’s example and looks at the role of revolutionary petty bourgeoisie intellectuals and students in the struggle against neo-colonial oppression. In today’s Kenya this is a reminder to intellectuals and students that it is their duty to give ideological guidance to the ongoing class debate (hustlers-dynasty) and other struggles everywhere they find themselves.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117271254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface: Framing the Neocolonial Era","authors":"S. Oyoo","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"1982, the year of Maina’s arrest, begins in the backdrop of a sustained assault on the African left over the preceding two decades; a period which saw organizations systematically brought to their knees and their leadership plucked from the people through coups, brutal assassinations, jail, torture and exile. This backdrop was not unique to Africa, it was being replicated across the world; in Latin America, Asia, and other territories.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131064476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What are the Alternatives to Jail?","authors":"Chebukati .","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The book starts with an event that Maina can’t forget for a lifetime. The arrest of Maina and other political prisoners are learning manuals and memoirs of honour to the struggle. Not compromising his beliefs and political stand made Maina’s life hard and miserable for years, but that was a revolutionary decision.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123625050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I Shall Never Surrender","authors":"Lewis Maghanga","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Lewis Maghanga gives us a timely reminder of how jails and other state institutions have historically and continue to be used to repress and break the Kenyans struggling to change the order of things. He draws similarities between the colonial administration and neo-colonial government, reminding us that the neo-colonial state is an appendage of global imperialism - and that the people of Kenya today still face the task of carrying on with the struggle for full independence and freedom.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133760494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prisons Do Not Disappear Problems, They Disappear Human Beings","authors":"Nicholas Mwangi","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Nicholas Mwangi explores how our generation has been forcefully torn apart from the true history of our land by hegemonies around knowledge and learning. He reminds us that though the neoliberal education system continues to depoliticise young people, we must dare to dream of a better society, educate ourselves politically, and organise towards a system that takes care of the majority and not a few in society, as Maina wa Kinyatti did.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122166095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Books by Maina wa Kinyatti","authors":"","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Brief bibliography of books by Maina wa Kinyatti.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115283454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"25 Years Later, Marxism Remains a Tool for Our Struggle","authors":"Brian Mathenge","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Brian Mathenge notes the actions of successive regimes in Kenya in overseeing the suppression of staunch Marxists and progressives who seemed a threat to the establishment - including political assassinations and arrests of those who happened to have different perspectives or ideological orientation - primarily because the ruling class was (and still is) frightened by efforts to educate and develop the consciousness of the masses. But as he reminds us, young cadres from the Social Justice Centre’s are today adopting Marxism as a tool for struggle, and 25 years after the publication of \u0000 Kenya: A Prison Notebook, a defiant generation with a fighting spirit is ready to advance the struggle for socialism as a generational mission.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"86 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125973145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's Introduction to the Kenya Edition, Nairobi: Vita Books 2021","authors":"S. Oyoo","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Written 25 years ago, \u0000 Kenya: A Prison Notebook has inspired generations and proved a great resource and a hand book in political education in Kenya and beyond. It chronicles Maina Wa Kinyatti’s arrest and detention by the Moi regime, and powerfully captures Kenya’s history.","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114931962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on\u0000 Kenya - A Prison Notebook: Intergenerational Inheritance of Social Struggles in Kenya","authors":"Gacheke Gachihi","doi":"10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/groudevepanacrit.5.2.0004","url":null,"abstract":"“June 9th 1982 After refusing to sign a written confession statement, I was given back my clothes, blindfolded, handcuffed and taken to the CID headquarters where I was physically abused, photographed, fingerprinted and charged with possession of a seditious publications entitled Moi’s Divisive Tactics Exposed, a document the Police had planted in one of my research files.” —Prof. Maina Wa Kinyatti","PeriodicalId":249775,"journal":{"name":"Groundings: Development, Pan-Africanism and Critical Theory","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130324871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}