Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission should have given us more, not the expected

By Charles Kanjama

NAIROBI, KENYA: Six years ago, I read a copy of Caroline Elkins’ landmark book Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, on the British response to the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. Elkins is an academic historian who conducted enormous research on the Mau Mau phenomenon, including more than 200 interviews with Mau Mau survivors, as well as home guards and loyalists, settlers and colonial officers.