eigenstil#MauMau und #Pommes und #Bier. Herrlich, #SommerUrlaub ♣️♦️♠️♥️🃏🍟🍻
wThe great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died.
I didn't know much about him other than his writing. I came across "Petals of Blood" in a second hand book shop back in the 90s. It's one of those novels you don't forget reading.
He was a champion of African literature in African languages. I can see where he was coming from but I can also see why writers such as Chinua Achebe choose to write in English - to reach a wider readership in Africa as well as beyond.
Ngũgĩ seems to have been a complex character. Hard to read about him abusing his wife (according to the son), especially just after reading about her being raped by men targeting Ngũgĩ (presumably for his uncompromising political views).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce999kwxn1ro
#NgugiWaThiongo #Kenya #AfricanLiterature #KenyanLiterature #PetalsOfBlood #RIP #Africa #Kenya #20thCLit #MauMau #BritishColonialism
Tonboriday TDJ-Pop idol group maumau to Say Goodbye This June as Internal Issues Force Group’s Breakup https://www.tonboriday.com/2025/05/maumau-announces-sudden-disbandment.html
Gif's Artidote#declassified: how #britain systematically tortured and killed 80000 #Maumau in #Kenia during #BritishColonialRule and denies it to this day.
#GifsArtidote: only when #UKgov is forced by the british people to #educate the truth about its historic conduct, will we achieve change.
#press #news #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon #WhiteSupremacy #GlobalSouth #organise #resist #Decolonise #Colonialism #racism
https://youtu.be/yRaXtH_xfXM?si=0785X4aUS8UJQzf1
In addition, read my article #TheStateWeAreIn
http://gifsartidote.life/2025/01/14/the-state-we-are-in/
The Shocking Truth Of Torture In The War | A Very British Way of Torture | Channel 4
poison punk#declassified: how #britain systematically tortured and killed 80000 #Maumau in #Kenia during #BritishColonialRule and denies it to this day.
#GifsArtidote: only when #UKgov is forced by the british people to #educate the truth about its historic conduct, will we achieve change.
#press #news #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon #WhiteSupremacy #GlobalSouth #organise #resist #Decolonise #Colonialism #racism
https://youtu.be/yRaXtH_xfXM?si=0785X4aUS8UJQzf1
In addition: read my article #TheStateWeAreIn http://gifsartidote.life/2025/01/14/the-state-we-are-in/
#GifsArtidote: only when #UKgov is forced by the british people to #educate the truth about its historic conduct, will we achieve change.
#press #news #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon #WhiteSupremacy #GlobalSouth #organise #resist #Decolonise #Colonialism #racism
https://youtu.be/yRaXtH_xfXM?si=0785X4aUS8UJQzf1
In addition: read my article #TheStateWeAreIn http://gifsartidote.life/2025/01/14/the-state-we-are-in/
The Shocking Truth Of Torture In The War | A Very British Way of Torture | Channel 4
bsmall2> Britain’s dying empire forced its acceptance of Kenya’s independence in 1963 and the end of its settler colonialism. The current decline of the United States empire is forcing something similar in Israel. After the latest and the worst Gaza war, Israel’s crucial ally is inching closer to the conclusion Britain reached in Kenya after the Mau Mau uprising.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/31/settler-colonialism-it-ends-with-us-in-palestine-and-israel/
#uspol #MauMau #KenyaPalestine #BritishEmpire #USAEmpire #RichardWolf
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/31/settler-colonialism-it-ends-with-us-in-palestine-and-israel/
#uspol #MauMau #KenyaPalestine #BritishEmpire #USAEmpire #RichardWolf
Settler Colonialism: "It Ends With Us" in Palestine and Israel
Israel tried to operate settler colonialism on the pattern of earlier European settler colonialisms established around the world. That effort linked to me indirectly in a remarkably personal way. Without grasping why, I chose to participate in a program for Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates that took 20 of us to East Africa in the early 1960s as volunteers for a summer of teaching. I began to learn there what settler colonialism meant. Further studies grew into my doctoral dissertation later at Yale based on research in the records of London’s Colonial Office and the British Museum. My resulting book, The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya, 1870–1930 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1974), tried to analyze Kenya’s settler colonialist economy.
Kleiner Kalender28. Dez: #MauMau für die einen und #BlackJack für die anderen - es ist Tag des Kartenspielens! https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/105218 #Kartenspiel #TagDesKartenspielens
Ms. Que BanhBefore I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.
Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.
A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.
Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sSGd2w_rk
#ColonialViolence #GlobalSouth #Kenya #BritishColonizers #Colonialism #AfricanHistory #HumanHistory #Geopolitics #BritishHistory #ColonialExploitation #ColonialAbuses #MauMau #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #Educational #DocFilm #Africa #BlackHistory #POCstories #LearnHistory #SystematicRacism #Torture #WarCrimes #UKhistory #ColonialAtrocities #historians #history
A Very British Way of Torture | Featured Documentaries
Carmilla On Line - Rss BotAvanti barbari!/4 – Una precisazione necessaria https://www.carmillaonline.com/2024/08/28/avanti-barbari-4-addenda-1/ #AmericanIndianMovement #BlackPantherParty #EmilioQuadrelli #AmadeoBordiga #imperialismo #LouisaYousfi #proletariato #Interventi #terroristi #Comunismo #NatTurner #Palestina #barbari #Engels #MauMau #sepoy #Marx
Paria sans portefeuille"In 2011, the world learned of the secret British policy called #OperationLegacy that was implemented in the 1950s. The goal of this policy was to remove incriminating documents from former colonies in the months before each one became politically independent.
"Documents that might embarrass or damage the British government, police and military were either secretly removed or destroyed."
https://theconversation.com/operation-legacy-how-britain-covered-up-its-colonial-crimes-225330
#ColonialViolence #BritishEmpire #colonialism #UKPol #Kenya #MauMau #Guyana
