Interesting, esp in light of Eboni's report at last seminar. Peter
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Friends,
For torture, detention and other human rights abuses, the Kenya Human
Rights Commission (KHRC) will file a representative law-suit in the
British High Court against the British Government on behalf of Mau Mau
war survivors. Please find links to two article I have written about
this, one for the LA Times and the other for Pambazuka News, here
below.
Britain should pay for its colonialism – LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ngugi3nov03,0,4270221.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Justice for Mau Mau War Veterans – Pambazuka News
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/43984
Also in 2006 Mark Seal wrote an essay on the murder of a Kenyan white
environmentalist, Joan Root, whom Julia Roberts in true Hollywood
fashion will portray in a movie to be shot in 2008. The Vanity Fair
article captures, to put it bluntly, the racism and contempt that
Kenyan white farmers have for Africans. It also underlines the
distance that Kenya still has to travel in addressing its colonial
legacy. Please find a link to a humorous response (ten direct quotes
from that article) here below.
Top Ten Reasons to Read Vanity Fair's Article - A Flowering Evil – Pambazuka
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/44144
With warmth,
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