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The shy governor who had no mercy on Mau Mau fighters

By Kenneth Kwama

Kenya: In June 1957, Kenya’s colonial governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, passed on a secret memorandum that had been written by Eric Griffiths Jones, who was the country’s Attorney General.

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