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Mau Mau revisited.(Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya)(Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War and the End of the Empire)(Book Review)
All history, it has been said, is contemporary. What is remembered and how it is remembered depends on the axes that people wish to grind.
Whether or not this is always the case, it is clearly sometimes the case. For example, there has been a renewal of interest in Europe recently in the Armenian massacres, although nothing fundamentally new has been discovered about them. It is easy to divine the reason for this renewal of interest: not a sudden upsurge of sympathy for the Armenians of the past, but of anxiety about the possible accession of Turkey to the European Union. The demand that the Turks should recognize their genocidal history as a condition of ...
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...reparations for Mau Mau veterans in Kenya, but the veterans...colonial rule in Kenya. "We will not...a member of the Mau Mau War Veterans Association...detention camps. Most Mau Mau resisters were members of the Kikuyu, Kenya's largest ethnic...
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- Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt.(Review)
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...95 (ISBN 0-253-33664-3). Mau Mau and Kenya is a well written work which provides...highly complex movements that were Mau Mau. It is divided into three parts...which made differentiating between Mau Mau and crime difficult if not impossible...
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