Hard earned FREEDOM

In October 1952, the British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency. Mau Mau rebels were attacking and killing African loyalists and white settlers in a quest for "land and freedom." Whites were in a panic, and the empire needed a swift show of force. What began as a military operation turned into an eight-year campaign of terror against Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu. British soldiers herded nearly one million of them into detention camps and "emergency villages," where they endured forced labor, starvation, torture, and disease. At least 100,000 died.

Today we celebrate Madaraka Day, the day we got self rule from the colonialists, the imperialists, the god-damn British. I still do not believe that they believed what they were doing was right especially since it was identical to the holocaust. How do you go to a new land, claim it as yours and kill, tax and torture those from whom you took the land. I feel like puking every time I think about it. Life is such a bitch. "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya", is a book that tells of the injustices of British colonial rule. Get it, Read it!