Characteristics that would come to define Mau Mau camps – neglect, forced labour and ill-health – were ingrained long before 1952.
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If archives were destroyed and public history suppressed, where else might the past be found?
The land question and reparative packages for the ex-Mau Mau remain unaddressed.
Oral histories serve as a challenge to the evidence in the colonial archive.
The visit will acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s colonial history.
Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
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