Introduction: hegemony and counterhegemony in colonial context -- Domination and its resistance : writings on Mau Mau -- Rebel yell : the field marshal's story -- Women and Mau Mau -- Mau Mau and the critique of nationalism -- Writing as subversion : Ngui wa Thiong'o's Mau Mau -- Mau Mau in and as colonial discourse -- The subaltern writes back -- Conclusion : a presentist approach to Mau Mau.