Adam Foulds, novelist and poet, has chosen to discuss L S B Leakey’s Mau Mau and the Kikuyu, on FiveBooks (http://five-books.com) as one of the top five on his subject - The Mau Mau Uprising and The Fading Empire, saying that:

“…Louis Leakey was very interesting – a major intellectual figure in the history of paleoanthropology. He grew up in very close contact with the Kikuyu, but this book is squarely in the language of the time, which was that Mau Mau represented an atavism, that they had regressed back to their savage, pre-settled, pre-Christianised state and what was being unleashed was a kind of innate violence...…”.

The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/adam-foulds ( )