Imperial Reckoning, The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and horror at the heart of Britain’s civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, countless Kenyans fought together with the British in World War II. Simply a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government apprehended almost the whole population of Kenya’s biggest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million individuals. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a figured out effort by the British to destroy all official records of their efforts to stop the Mau uprising, the Kikuyu individuals’s ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant teacher of history at Harvard University, invested a years in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside talking to hundreds of Kikuyu males and females who made it through the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The outcome is an extraordinary account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a turning point in twentieth- century history with cooling parallels to America’s own royal project. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Reward for Nonfiction.

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