Regimes and Resistance: Kenya’s Resistance History through Underground and Alternative Publications

This essay introduces the Revolutionary Papers teaching tool on the publications at Ukombozi Library, which houses leftist and revolutionary publications from Kenya and around the world. Through different movements’ publications, the authors map Kenyan resistance history through regimes of the colonial and postcolonial periods. A reading of Kenya’s history through alternative movements and the leftist publications produced during these different regimes contests the dominant narratives that have been advanced by the right-wing postindependence regimes.