Happy Jamhuri day wadau,
I have been reading the book " [SIZE=7]Imperial Reckoning: [/SIZE][SIZE=6]The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya" by [/SIZE]Caroline Elkins. I have come to hate the guts of the British for their brutal and inhumane acts on the Kenyan people and the detainees then. A troubling excerpt from the book"
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By virtue of their skin color, whites of all classes were the master race and therefore deserving of privilege. To the settlers there was nothing noble about the African “savage.” Many believed the African to be biologically inferior, with smaller brain sizes, a limited capacity to feel pain or emotion, and even different nutritional needs, requiring only a bowl of maize meal, or posho, to maintain their health. African men had to be controlled; they were unpredictable and sexually aggressive, threatening both white women and the maintenance of their idealized chastity as well as the racial purity of the colony’s European community"
Another example,
" Apart from the beatings, women used to have banana leaves and flowers inserted into their vaginas and rectums, as well as have their breasts squeezed with a pair of pliers; after which, a woman would say everything because of the pain…even the men had their testicles squeezed with pliers to make them confess!"
“Whether conscious or not, sexual violence was a method of regaining masculine control. Indeed, how better to assert British male domination than to emasculate, literally, the enemy? The most grotesque form of this tactic was castration. Accounts of men’s testicles being forcibly removed are widespread in various written and oral sources. Men like those at Athi River referred to the castration pliers that were used throughout the Pipeline, as well as in the Kikuyu reserves. Apparently, this was an instrument devised to crush the men’s testicles before they were eventually ripped off. In one memorandum delivered to Governor Baring, the Christian Council of Kenya stated that British colonial agents were castrating Mau Mau suspects, and that on one occasion a man “had his private parts laid on a table and beaten till the scrotum burst because he would not speak.”
To those who claim that we should be recolonized, I strongly disagree. It is better to suffer under the hand of black man rather than the mzungus.
Many more Jamhuri day’s to elders here