The Podcast on the History of Italians in Kenya has reached its ninth episode and this week analyses, from the perspective of our compatriots, one of the most controversial periods in the history of the African country, the struggle for independence from British colonialism, which reached its climax in the early 1950s with the terrorist actions of the Mau Mau rebel movement and the subsequent violent repression by the British army.
Amidst this period of bloodshed, pain and uncertainty, in which the real war, even in terms of human losses, was between “loyalist” Kenyans and revolutionaries, there were also many compatriots: those who decided to leave for a few years or forever, those who had no other choice, in terms of work and life, but to stay, and those, very few unlucky ones, who paid the consequences.
Meanwhile, in a prison in northern Kenya, the foundations were being laid for an independent Kenya, and even there, in some way, Italians would pass through...
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