Why Jomo Kenyatta’s send-off was just like that of Winston Churchill

It was a full State burial for Mzee Jomo Kenyatta complete with military honours. [File, Standard]

In recent times, studies on colonialism and imperialism have extended to include exploration of political intimacies. These include power relations, emotional economies, cultural hybridities or economies of colonial knowledge.

Despite the bitter after-effects of colonialism in Kenya and the painful end of imperialism in 1963, the funeral of Jomo Kenyatta – a man who had established himself in the British popular imagination as the embodiment of endurance and struggle - provided a revealing glimpse of the depth of England’s continuing love relationship with Kenya.