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heri
#111 Posted : Monday, July 23, 2018 10:04:53 AM
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heri wrote:
Kusadikika wrote:
heri wrote:
Lolest! wrote:
Caroline Elkin's 'Britain's Gulag'

A sad, embittering collection of accounts from detainees during the 1950s emergency. Brings to light facts like Winston Churchill govt's knowledge and permission of use of torture in detention just after WW2 where the Nazis were condemned for the same.

Torture included beatings(to death), starvation, forced labour (detainees labour gave us JKIA, Yatta irrigation & Mwea Irrigation schemes), castration, stuffing sand through mouth or anusSad

Life wasn't any better for those left in concentration villages. There was forced labour, beatings, rape, famine and many deaths

Not yet done with it but would recommend it for anyone interested in Kenyan history


I cannot find it on kindle. Is it available locally in the bookshops?


They changed the name of the book in later versions but it is the same book called "Imperial Reckoning: The untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya"

It is available on Kindle.


Still cannot find it in kindle

I managed to get the book at Text Book Center. It is so graphic and full of horror

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heri
#112 Posted : Friday, August 10, 2018 11:43:39 AM
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Lolest! wrote:
Caroline Elkin's 'Britain's Gulag'

A sad, embittering collection of accounts from detainees during the 1950s emergency. Brings to light facts like Winston Churchill govt's knowledge and permission of use of torture in detention just after WW2 where the Nazis were condemned for the same.

Torture included beatings(to death), starvation, forced labour (detainees labour gave us JKIA, Yatta irrigation & Mwea Irrigation schemes), castration, stuffing sand through mouth or anusSad

Life wasn't any better for those left in concentration villages. There was forced labour, beatings, rape, famine and many deaths

Not yet done with it but would recommend it for anyone interested in Kenyan history


Finally finished reading the book. It is like watching a horror movie. Extremely sad what happened

And to make matters worse the loyalists as they are referred to in the book are the ones who benefitted and those who suffered the most were further made to suffer even more after independence.

And those who paid such a heavy price are not even remembered



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kiwaru
#113 Posted : Friday, August 10, 2018 12:51:05 PM
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Guns, Germs and Steel... the Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond has an in depth look at evolution of population subsets and what enables some to conquer others.
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Swenani
#114 Posted : Friday, August 10, 2018 2:43:17 PM
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Spells that Really work by DrMamaalphah
If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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vky
#115 Posted : Thursday, December 06, 2018 7:02:01 PM
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The Hacking of the American Mind - Robert Lustig MD
'One headache for famous medieval holy people was that someone might murder you to acquire your body parts for the relics trade'
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Lolest!
#116 Posted : Monday, December 10, 2018 3:30:47 PM
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Recently read Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens'. This is a book everyone should read. It's focus is the history of man and where we are likely headed in all aspects-politics, economy, science, social life etc

Quite a thought provoking book!

Now reading David Anderson's Histories of the Hanged. Easier read on the Kenyan Emergency period than Elkin's book.
Laughing out loudly smile Applause d'oh! Sad Drool Liar Shame on you Pray
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tom_boy
#117 Posted : Monday, December 10, 2018 6:58:12 PM
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Thinking fast and slow, Daniel Kahneman.
Thought provoking about how the human mind works to arrive at decisions.
They must find it difficult....... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. -G. Massey.
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#118 Posted : Monday, December 10, 2018 7:58:14 PM
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Guru: A Long Walk to Success.
Autobiography of Narendra Raval. Great read so far...

BBI will solve it :)
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Apricot
#119 Posted : Monday, December 10, 2018 10:01:55 PM
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bought this together with his book "Crime and Punishment", which I will read after.
First time in history we can save the human race by laying in front of the TV and doing nothing. Let's not screw it up
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Lolest!
#120 Posted : Tuesday, December 11, 2018 5:52:08 AM
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Apricot wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bought this together with his book "Crime and Punishment", which I will read after.

Where can I get Karamazov in Nairobi?
Laughing out loudly smile Applause d'oh! Sad Drool Liar Shame on you Pray
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