Kenya: The History You Were Never Taught
The British sent their simpletons to civilize Kenyans - Argwings Kodhek Hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu men and women were killed by the British during the state of emergency between 1952 and 1960. Only 32 whites were reportedly killed by the Mau Mau in the same period. Barbara Castle, Labour MP (1945- 1979) and a socialist at heart, who was reputed for admonishing the British society to first remove the log in their own eye before demanding of others to remove a speck out of theirs, was a voice of civility when her compatriots across the Empire were working too hard to demonstrate otherwise. She vigorously condemned the use of Nazi-like concentration camps by ...