Early this year we had the pleasure of hosting a documentary film screening at SOAS University on behalf of Decolonising Our Minds Society (DOM).
We were keen to be part of this conversation as the documentary looked at the brutal repression in British occupied East Africa and the resistance of the Mau Mau. The methods conceived and employed by the British government in order to stifle indigenous resistance included mass detention, torture, rape, and murder.
As well as the spectacular violence of the occupation the British Colonial Office (which later become its Foreign Office) engaged in ‘Operation Legacy’ - the systematic erasure of evidence that saw the British government destroy and hide files relating to its occupation in East Africa. cont.
www.nsyf.org.uk/blog/operation-legacy
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