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The Leonard Lopate Show

Imperial Reckoning

Friday, May 27, 2005

Historian Caroline Elkins investigates the violent struggles surrounding British colonialism in Kenya. She challenges the standard British version of the Mau Mau rebellion, and uncovers disturbing stories of British labor and prison camps in her new book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya.


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