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A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britains civilizing mission in Kenya

As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenyas largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu some one and a half million people.

The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu peoples ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence.

Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them.

The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya a pivotal moment in twentieth century history with chilling parallels to Americas own imperial project.

Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. Buy for others

A fantastic book with stuningly accurate facts.Its eye opening,gripping,exiting ,and shocking. This book reveals the HIDDEN TRUTHS of atrocities perpetrated during the colonial period in Kenya from 1952 when a state of emergency was declaired by the colonial gorvenor of disability-studies This was one of the hardest book that I ever read, even though it was well written and interesting. I persisted since I was going to lead Healing from War and Genocide workshops in Nigeria and Kenya in May 2017 for Black Africans from about 17 different countries. The book The book, while highlighting a tragic chapter in the history of the Kenyan people as well as the horrific consequences of a paternalistic British colonialism, feels long. This book presents fact after fact connected to the brutal colonial policy of the British in Kenya. I Kenya in the Emergency of the Mau Mau rebellion by the Kikuyu people filled the 1950s up to the early 1960s British decision to relinquish colonial control and allow independence. They are the years flowing into my life as a (not Peace Corps) resident Caroline Elkins Review Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Mau Mau: The Kenyan Emergency by Peter Baxter is a very clean, very nice and respectable report on the official actions of the British governmental officials during the years 1950 1060. disability-studies

Let me just say that this is a depressing and compelling book. Not a decade after the end of WWII Britain instituted its own system of brutal prison camps in Kenya that violated every human rights accord Britain had signed in the wake of one of the greatest atrocities in I grew up in Kenya in Kikuyu and I always heard stories from my grandmother and great grandmother how horrible the British were, but I was young and had no idea how bad it was for our grandparents who survived the colonial period. I wept for my grandparents when I read Imperial Reckoning is a curiously disappointing book. It exposes us to a shockingly brutal and little known side of late empire British imperialism with overwhelming documentation, but in such flat prose that the horror and indignation proper to such events is leached away