Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau
uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people,
demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian
response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the
entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as
sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a
hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease,
starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these
events remained untold. Caroline Elkins conducted years of research
to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and
interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag
reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war
and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control
its empire.
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