ASC Seminar: Guilty secrets: Torture, Abuse and the British in Africa

Speaker: David Anderson. Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion was the most brutal and savage of all Britain’s wars of decolonisation, and has generated a deeply contested history. This paper charts the struggle for recognition of the grim realities of this war through the long battle, spanning more than half a century, to identify and recover the archives of the insurgency and counter-insurgency of the 1950s. With the discovery and release in 2012 of more than 1500 files of colonial papers from the period, Kenyans have begun to rejoice that they may get their history back: but some in Britain still wish to deny the realities of that history. David M. Anderson is Professor of African History at the University of Warwick; his next book, Red Continent: Africa and the Cold War, will be published in 2015. Please register: Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

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