Britain's Gulag
The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
Recommended by Julia Lovell, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #18 in African History
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 mass 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 - and to portray them as sub-human savages.
From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and... more
From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and... more
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Julia Lovell The uncomfortable fact remains that a large slice of the British Empire was bankrolled by opium money. (Source)
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