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How the British planted seeds of ethnicity

The seeds of tribal suspicion were gradually taking root in the name of containing the Mau Mau uprising in 1948.

By KAMAU MUTUNGA

The ethnic boundaries between pre-colonial Kenyan communities were fluid. All communities ensured negative ethnicity was still-birthed.

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