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The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Owl Books
December 2005
496 pages
ISBN: 0805080015
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Non-Fiction
As part of the Allied forces, 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 compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps
where thousands met their deaths was the victim of a
determined effort by the British to destroy all official
records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising.
Caroline Elkins spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the
Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of survivors of the
camps and the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of
the British colonial empire in Kenya--a pivotal moment in
twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to
America’s own imperial project.
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