The Betrayal of Uhuru: Land, Looting, and the Legacy of Kenyatta's Kenya

The promise of Kenyan independence was land. —freedom and land. This was the

cry of the Mau Mau fighters in the forests of the Aberdares and Mount Kenya. They fought to reclaim the

ancestral soil stolen by white settlers, the fertile White Highlands. When Jomo Kenyatta, the man they

called the Burning Spear, was released from prison and ascended to power in 1963, a wave of

expectation swept the nation. The land would return to its people. The colonial injustice would be

undone.

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