 In Mau Mau and Nationhood, the editors write, New states are often declared in the name of peoples not yet aware of their own collective existence. Their heroically unified past and manifest joint destiny have yet to be imagined for them. National imagination follows the state. After a new state's formation, its schools can teach a standard language. Its sergeant majors can shout it to conscripts on parade grounds. Peasants can thus be turned into citizens.