Abstract In Kenya, the prophecies of the late Elijah Masinde, leader of the anti-colonial religious revival Dini ya Msambwa, remain contested. MacArthur explores the religious innovations, intellectual work, and moral debates for the first time through Masinde’s own words. During his 1948 deportation trial, while the prosecution sought to remake Masinde from prophetic madman into calculating criminal, Masinde used the courtroom to challenge the pathologization of rebellion and remake his own patriotic vision. MacArthur argues that Masinde’s trial reveals colonial justice and psychiatry as discursive arenas for contestations over resistance, social control, and moral authority in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

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起诉先知：肯尼亚殖民地的正义、精神病学和叛乱

摘要 在肯尼亚，已故的反殖民宗教复兴领袖伊利亚·马辛德 (Elijah Masinde) 的预言仍然存在争议。麦克阿瑟第一次通过马辛德自己的话探索了宗教创新、智力工作和道德辩论。在 1948 年的驱逐出境审判中，在检方试图将马辛德从预言狂人改造为精算罪犯的同时，马辛德在法庭上挑战了叛逆的病态化，重塑了自己的爱国愿景。麦克阿瑟认为，马辛德的审判揭示了殖民正义和精神病学是殖民和后殖民非洲关于抵抗、社会控制和道德权威的争论的话语舞台。