
Who gets to tell the history of Mau Mau?
David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.
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BIO: Lauren Cochrane is a final-year PhD researcher specialising in the Kenya Emergency, with a specific focus on visual representations of violence, detention, and colonial authority.

David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.