Africans may be free, but they are still at risk of domination

British soldiers line up for a parade at the height of the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s. [File, Standard]

As Walter Rodney, author of 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa', would have put it, there are fresh traces of how Buckingham Palace set Kenya on a path of inestimable underdevelopment.

This column borrows from Dr Rodney's stance to explain the exploitative relations that persist between Nairobi and London.