Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story — Of Britain...

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (2005) by Caroline Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical investigation. It exposes the systematic violence used by the British colonial government to suppress the Mau Mau uprising in 1950s Kenya. Key Findings

Elkins documents widespread atrocities, including beatings, sexual violation, castration, and psychological coercion. Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain...

The British detained nearly the entire Kikuyu population—roughly 1.5 million people—in a system of camps and barbed-wire villages. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag