Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
ISBN-13:
9781847922946
ISBN-10:
1847922945
Author:
Caroline Elkins
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Bodley Head
Format:
Paperback
496 pages
Category:
East Africa
,
African History
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ISBN-13:
9781847922946
ISBN-10:
1847922945
Author:
Caroline Elkins
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Bodley Head
Format:
Paperback
496 pages
Category:
East Africa
,
African History
Summary
Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya (ISBN-13: 9781847922946 and ISBN-10: 1847922945), written by authors
Caroline Elkins, was published by Bodley Head in 2014.
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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 massive 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 - to treat and portray them as sub-human savages. From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly hundreds of thousands - died from the combined effects of exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. Until now these events have remained untold, largely because the British government in Kenya destroyed most of its files. For the last eight years Caroline Elkins has conducted exhausted research to piece together, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals what happened inside Kenya's detention camps, as well as the efforts to conceal the truth. Now, for the first time, we can understand the full savagery of the Mau Mau was and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.
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