WHERE IS OUR AFRICAN HISTORY? VETERAN JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN JOHN KAMAU ASKS HD
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Decorated Kenyan journalist and historian,
Decorated Kenyan journalist and historian, John Kamau, one of the Editors of the Mau Mau Chronicles, traces the history of colonialism in Kenya in this extended interview. He tells of how missionaries served, knowingly or unknowingly, as the vanguard of imperial occupation, which was solidified at the Berlin conference of 1885 that curved up the African continent among the great European powers of the time. He also tells of the Imperial British East Company, the British corporation that first claimed Kenya for the British, the introduction of eucalyptus trees in Nairobi, and of the transition of the territory that later became known as Kenya to Protectorate, and then Colonial status. To help in the administration of the new British sphere of influence, laws were imported from India, South Africa and England, with Kenya-specific laws being enacted at the center of the Empire for the purpose. The imperial occupiers used modern weapons and mercenaries - such as the bloodthirsty Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen whose trail of murders spread from Murang'a to Nandi - to suppress African resistance. Kamau faults the teaching of history of Kenya, which has continued to put emphasis on colonial history and asks: Where is our history? By our history he means the history of the African peoples, which is often ignored or deliberately elided in a continuing project to change colonial narrative from what it really was - an episode of brutal oppression - to its glorification as a justifiable civilising enterprise.
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