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In Kenya, a Legacy of Resilience
(The Root) — For many of Kenya’s well-off, Saturdays are for shopping, drinking lattes, nibbling on international fare like sushi and Greek frozen yogurt and window-shopping in Nairobi’s upscale malls. There’s the Sarit Center, the Village Market and the perhaps the glitziest of them all, the Westgate Mall, where the car park is often filled…
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Britain Apologizes to the Mau Mau; the Rest of the Empire Waits
In a piece at The Guardian, Harvard University scholar Caroline Elkins checks in on the Mau Mau’s stunning legal victory against the United Kingdom for the systematic violence it committed during the group’s struggle for independence. On Thursday nearly 200 elderly Kikuyu people travelled from their rural homesteads and sat before the British high commissioner…