Safari in the age of Kenyatta.(Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya liberation struggle)(Critical essay)

The Hemingway Review | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

IN APRIL OF 1953, as the Hemingways were about to leave for Europe en route to Africa for their safari, Jomo Kenyatta, the future president of the Republic of Kenya, was on trial in a British colonial court in Kapenguria, charged with inciting the Mau Mau uprising that had been terrifying the country since 195z. Found guilty, he was sentenced to prison at hard labor for seven years Murray-Brown, 297-321). (1)

Like the popular revolts and wars of national liberation that swept Africa after World War Two in places such as the Belgian Congo, Algeria, and Rhodesia, the ...

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