Imperial Reckoning : The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)

from bruchu

The Dark Side of Empire The British have up until recently been very proud of their imperial achievements. The only problem was that empire-building involved a certain amount of heavy-handed tactics, and like other imperialists like King Leopold, the French, and the Germans knew that sacrifices n...

from bruchu

The Dark Side of Empire The British have up until recently been very proud of their imperial achievements. The only problem was that empire-building involved a certain amount of heavy-handed tactics, and like other imperialists like King Leopold, the French, and the Germans knew that sacrifices n...

from busterrll

Well written, highly researched but brutal in its honesty. Yet another history of European's assumption of power and intelligence of Africans. A slow but thorough book. When I got the candid part of torturing of natives, I said to myself. Enough. A necessary book to remind ourselves of the callou...

from kaitanya64

Along with David Anderson's Histories of the Hanged, a well-researched expose of the brutality of British response to Mau Mau.

from AndrewBlackman

I studied history up to degree level at Oxford University, and yet reading books like this makes me realise how one-sided my education was. The statistics here are stunning - 1.5 million Kenyans imprisoned, perhaps hundreds of thousands killed. But it is the individual stories which are truly sho...