The Boy Is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General

Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Introduction
Part 1: How I Grew
	We Were Wearing Skins
	Our Good Things Were Called Evil
	My Message Came through Measles
	No Longer a Boy
	A Time When Hitler Laughed
Part 2: Black Market
	Paid from the Center
	Somebody to Help Me
	These Africans Are Not Fearing Now
	Timber
	The Emergency
	The Shot You Have Heard
Part 3: The Forest
	A Violent Rainstorm Blames the Wind
	The One Who Dug the Hole Is the One Who Fell In
	Die without Noise
	Take Him to Kimathi
	“The Year of Mau Mau”
Part 4: Uhuru
	Surrender
	Eating Sand
	Kenyatta Won’t Come to Manyani
	Following the Pipeline
	I Was Fearing Politics
	Who Was First Becomes Last
Part 5: Wazeehood
	“Forget the Past”
	I Will Stop Dancing When I See My Child Coming to Dance
	Too Much of Anything Is Poisonous
	Nothing Culture
Epilogue: Now Is the Time I Prayed to See
Acknowledgments
Jesca and The General’s Children and Grandchildren
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Further Reading
Index