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Martyrs of the British Empire

The neatly manicured Nairobi War Cemetery is a reminder of the country's role in World War II, writes Ferdinand Mwongela

As the guns fell silent at the end of the Second World War, across the reaches of the British Empire lay the dead, some buried by their kith and kin, but more lay in war cemeteries.

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