"A narrative of publishing in Kenya from the time of the Berlin Conference of 1884 through to the Lancaster House Conference in 1963, spanning the entire colonial period of Kenyan history. It documents publishing activities during the period, from the earliest information bulletins of the colonial settler state to the Mau Mau liberation movement publications in the 1950s and 1960s during the struggle for independence, and examines how this struggle was reflected in the communications field. Durrani offers a fresh interpretation on an important aspect of Kenyan colonial history from a working class point of view, and aims to provide a new perspective on how communications can be a powerful weapon for social justice in the hand of liberation forces. In terms of its coverage of publishing, the book is primarily concerned with newspaper publishing and magazines, the activities of small printing presses, and those of a wide variety of associations, organizations, trade unions, and nationalist movements that were part of the liberation struggle. It charts the history of these publications chronologically, and gives the full political context of each period. The book, which contains an introduction by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is a well-documented history of the struggle of Kenyan people against British colonialism and the battle for press freedom and free expression." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 600)