Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya / Caroline Elkins.

1st ed.

0805067809
0805076530

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2005.

English

xvi, 475 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

9780805067804

DT433.577 .E45 2005

15.80

967.62/03

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-449) and index.

Pulitzer Prize, 2006.

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