Kenya: Irony of Churchill's Nobel Prize And Kenyans' Sufferings

opinion

Nairobi — In Caroline Elkin's Britain's Gulag, shocking disclosure is made of the atrocities of the colonial period. The book is exceptional in the manner in which it unearths the horrors visited upon the people of Central Kenya as they resisted colonial attempts at impoverishing and subjecting them to a disgraceful life.

The book names a number of notorious actors and participants in that dark episode of Kenyan history either in the manner of policy formulation or by the actual implementation.

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