The violent Mau Mau revolt in 1950s Kenya against British colonial rule was viewed in the West as a "savage" rejection of "civilization." Now two outstanding histories place the Mau Mau in historical ...

Help us sue the British government for torture. That was the request Caroline Elkins, a Harvard historian, received in 2008. The idea was both legally improbable and professionally risky. Improbable ...

When the Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in New York this week, a Swahili expression joined the messages of congratulations filling the inbox of Caroline Elkins, the winner for general nonfiction for ...

When Caroline Elkins ’91 started working on her Harvard doctoral dissertation on the Mau Mau rebellion, the long and violent uprising by Kenya’s largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, against British ...

As the Kenya at 50 celebrations draw near, one of the world’s leading historians will deliver a key note address on the role of liberation movements during an international conference days to the fete ...

Hating the British Empire is nothing new. Indeed, it has been the primary occupation of the academy since about 1960. Not without exceptions, of course. The prolific Jeremy Black’s Imperial Legacies ...

AFA copy 39088019016336 gift of Janet Stanley. Thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II, but just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government ...