Sanitizing the Kenyattas
Why are Kenya's ruling family trying to reinvent themselves as friends of Mau Mau so many years later?
Why are Kenya's ruling family trying to reinvent themselves as friends of Mau Mau so many years later?
The grievances of this generation in Kenya are disturbingly similar to those of the generation of the 1940s who took up arms in the Mau Mau movement. For both, it is about land and freedom.
How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.
Boris Johnson is in the running for UK Prime Ministers. The UK Conservative Party is particularly fond of Britian's colonial past, but Johnson usually outdoes himself in this regard.
Kimati's image has long stood in, symbolically, for the ideals and lost hopes of revolutionary decolonization in Kenya.
Kenyans choose to forget that the Kenya Land and Freedom army (also known as Mau Mau) did not fight for a monument. They fought for land.
The UK government is now openly tweeting its contempt for people of color.
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
How did Kenya and Kenyans get their reputations in US politics, particularly among U.S.. rightwingers, as anti-American?