I interviewed my colleague at SUNY-Oswego, Faith Maina, just as the story broke about Britain’s involvement in human rights atrocities in Kenya. Faith was only born after Kenya attained independence; but her father—a teacher—was detained twice during the Mau Mau uprising; afterwards, he could only get a job as a “boy” in the city. Her family also lost their lands, […]
Gandhi in Africa
April 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Relevant (longish) excerpt from Anita Desai’s review of Joseph Lelyveld’s new biography, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India in The New York Review of Books:
