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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Main Author: Elkins, Caroline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Physical Description:
xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Kikuyu (African people) -- History -- 20th century.
Prisons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
Political prisoners -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
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