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Rattling over African roads in my Roho
Renault Roho (see below) In the early 1970s, I spent two-and-a-half years in Kenya. I wanted to gain a real understanding of Africa, but there was no point pretending that I was anything other than a...
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What I loved about Africa
We don’t read a lot of good news about Africa. As I write this, and google “Africa —- News”, the top hits are: • Convoy attack kills three children, 19 adults in Central African Republic… Bodies burnt...
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Solving an African mystery: My Kenyan adventure
When I arrived in Kenya in the early 1970s to do research for my Ph.D. thesis, an advisor suggested I do a study of something called the Million-Acre Settlement Scheme, a massive government program to...
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Seeking socially acceptable descriptions for land theft in Kenya
As European settlement spread through Kenya’s highlands early in the 20th Century, considerable amounts of African land were included in what became known as the White Highlands. In later years,...
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African squatters on European land: Opportunity, followed by a squeeze
The establishment in Kenya of what Europeans liked to call the White Highlands — land reserved for occupation by themselves — cut off the land frontier that Africans relied upon to accommodate normal...
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The crackdown: Attempts to build a new Kikuyu society provoke a civil war
In a previous post we saw how increasing shortages of land were making life harder for Africans who had no land rights. The development of agriculture, both in the White Highlands and in the reserves,...
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A Kenyan official gets a humiliating taste of colonialism, on the eve of the...
The bloody civil war in Kikuyu country dimmed Britain’s appetite for colonial rule, but did nothing to resolve the problem of what was to become of the Europeans Britain had invited to settle in Kenya....
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Kenya’s independence from colonial rule: How the British off-loaded...
As it dawned on the British colonial authorities that their African colonial enterprise wasn’t working for them anymore, and it became clear that they would have to end colonial rule, they faced a...
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