January 21, 2005
A 'Civilizing' Mission in Late Colonial Kenya
Looking back to the start of my research, in the summer of 1995, I had no idea that nearly 10 years later I would write a book about wide-scale destruction in colonial Kenya and Britain's vigorous attempts to cover it up. I was a Harvard graduate student during those early days and had become fascinated with the history of Mau Mau, a liberation movement launched by Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, who had been pushed off their land in the process of colonization. From the start of
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