@article{305080, recid = {305080}, author = {Elkins, Caroline.}, title = {Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya /}, publisher = {Henry Holt and Co.,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {xvi, 475 p. :}, year = {2005}, abstract = {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 Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu--some one and a half million people. The story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence--Publisher.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/305080}, }