Rose Miyonga

My current research looks at grassroots histories and memories of the Mau Mau in post-colonial Kenya. Focusing on the lived experiences of Mau Mau survivors, I argue that Mau Mau survivors have found ways to remember despite – and sometimes because of – the wider processes of suppression and exclusion within public history-making. These central questions, of what Mau Mau memories look like at the margins and how Mau Mau survivors have preserved and made sense of their pasts in the contexts of wider political forgetting, has lead me to a methodological intervention in the field of Mau Mau studies. Research Interests: Kenyan history; legacies of empire and violence; public history; memory studies; history of emotions; post-colonial studies; land justice; archival justice