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Imperial reckoning the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya /
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 story of the system o...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Co.,
2005.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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