Part Two: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Update: 2006-11-02
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BIO: Caroline Elkins work on the Mau Mau emergency examines the origins and escalation of British colonial violence, the nature of the camp experience, and the impact of detention upon the Kikuyu population and the Kenyan nation as a whole. In arguing against the accepted view that detention in Kenya was a moment for British liberal reform, Elkins reexamines Britain's civilizing mission and suggests that the postwar period in Kenya was one of violence and brutality rather than one of gradual liberalization. Caroline is an assistant professor of history at Harvard University. She studies the colonial encounter in Africa during the twentieth century. Her works draw on a variety of different sources--including extensive oral testimonies, archival evidence, and personal accounts--to rethink our understanding of the late colonial period in Africa, particularly in those colonies that had a settler presence.
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