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Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Cast of characters -- Act One - The First Victory -- Scene 1: Workers are not buying food -- Nchi Yetu ni Kenya - Play Within a Play -- Scene 1 The Classroom -- Scene 2 Home -- Scene 3 The Enemy Arrives -- Scene 2: But resist we must -- Nchi Yetu ni Kenya -- Scene 3: Battles … And More Battles -- Never Let Go the Weapon -- Askaris Pay for Uji -- Workers Meet -- We Who Labour in Farms and Factories -- Peoples School -- What Can We Not Achieve -- Act Two - The Taking of Positions -- Scene 1: Abdi, the Eyes and Ears -- Scene 2: Onyango 'Dies' -- Act Three - The General Strike -- Scene 1: A Personal Affair -- Scene 2: The Picket Line -- Song of the Long Strike -- Daddy, Did You Mind the Picket Line? -- Scene 3: The Employers Despair -- Scene 4: Nchi Yetu Ni Kenya -- Nchi Yetu ni Kenya -- Back cover.

The struggle between socialism and capitalism in Kenya has been long, bitter and violent. Capitalism won with the active support of USA and UK governments at the time of independence in 1963. Yet the original (1960) Kenya African National Union (KANU) Party was in favour of socialism. It was Presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi who used violence to suppress those advocating socialism. They used their power to massacre, assassinate, exile, imprison and disappear people and created a state of terror to silence their opponents. Capitalism became the unstated state policy. Thus, imperialism won and the aims of Mau Mau were brutally suppressed. However, the desire for socialism never died. Resistance movements and opposition parties made socialism their aim, reflecting people's desire for justice, equality and empowerment. Many studies on Kenya focus on personalities or 'tribes' or race as driver of events, ignoring the all-important class and ideological positions of leaders and their Parties. Two Paths Ahead reproduces and comments on the documents from the opposing sides in the battles between capitalism and socialism -- the original Kenya African National Union (KANU), its successor, KANU-B, and the Kenya People's Union (KPU) on economy, land, labour, and social policy. It also touches upon the demands of the organisers of the 1982 Coup and traces the political stand of key leaders as proponents of capitalism or socialism. The final section reproduces some of the documents on this ideological struggle. The book exposes the hidden hand of imperialism in the country's rush to capitalism. It fills a gap in understanding the real contradictions that divide Kenya to this day.

Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- EDITORIAL: History as a guide to action -- Shiraz Durrani & -- Kimani Waweru: Kenya: Repression and Resistance: 1948-1990. -- Liberating Minds: Reflections on Repression and Resistance-Mathare Forum, 2019 Report on the Forum. -- Until Every One is Free: Podcast. Introduction & -- Notes from the Producers.

Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya's stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations. In this expanded and revised version of his 1986 booklet, Kimaathi, Mau Mau's First Prime Minister of Kenya, Durrani covers Mau Mau's resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism and reflects on its ideology, organisation and achievements. He sees Mau Mau in the larger context of Kenya's war of independence and looks at the influence of organised, radical trade unions as the engine of resistance, linking economic with political demands of working people. Additional chapters document the post-independence resistance by the underground December Twelve Movement-Mwakenya. Durrani captures the dynamism of transition from colonialism to neo-colonialism: "Imperialism replaced colonialism, African elites replaced White Settlers, neo-colonial government replaced colonial government. Resistance changed from the War of Independence to War of Economic Independence. Worker and peasant resistance is evident once again. History is on the march."