Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II, but just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu--some one and a half million people. The story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence--Publisher
Nonfiction
xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780805076530, 9780805080018, 9780805067804, 0805076530, 0805080015, 0805067809
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Pax Britannica
Britain's assault on Mau Mau
Screening
Rehabilitation
The birth of Britain's Gulag
The world behind the wire
The hard core
Domestic terror
Outrage, suppression, and silence
Detention exposed