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Rose Miyonga is a Kenyan-British writer and historian and a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, where her research focuses on the dynamics of memories of the Mau Mau War in post-independence Kenya. Her current work looks at grassroots histories and memories of Mau Mau in post-colonial Kenya, focusing on the lived experiences of survivors. She argues that survivors have found ways to remember despite and sometimes because of 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 survivors have preserved and made sense of their pasts amid wider political forgetting, have led her to a methodological intervention within 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.
Affiliation(s): University of Warwick
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Published Work: Miyonga, R. (2026). Old wounds: Embodying the Mau Mau war in post-colonial Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19(4), 693–710.
Rose Miyonga is a Kenyan-British writer and historian and a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, where her research focuses on the dynamics of memories of the Mau Mau War in post-independence Kenya. Her current work looks at grassroots histories and memories of Mau Mau in post-colonial Kenya, focusing on the lived experiences of survivors. She argues that survivors have found ways to remember despite and sometimes because of 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 survivors have preserved and made sense of their pasts amid wider political forgetting, have led her to a methodological intervention within 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.
Miyonga, R. (2026). Old wounds: Embodying the Mau Mau war in post-colonial Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 19(4), 693–710.
