Britain's Gulag : The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya book by Caroline Elkins

Britain's Gulag : The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya book by Caroline Elkins

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Britain's Gulag : The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya book by Caroline Elkins

Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a massive armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a half-million - to hold them in camps or confine them in villages ringed with barbed wire - to treat and portray them as sub-human savages. From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly hundreds of thousands - died from the combined effects of exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. Until now these events have remained untold, largely because the British government in Kenya destroyed most of its files.


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  • Paperback
  • 496 pages
  • English
  • 1847922945
  • 9781847922946

About Caroline Elkins

caroline elkins is professor of history and of african and african american studies at harvard university and the founding director of harvard's center for Read More about Caroline Elkins
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