Why Trump should consider making Kenya USA's 51st state

US President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 6, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Understandably, anyone who has listened to the painful first-hand reminiscences of the independence generation, or perhaps read Caroline Elkins grisly narration, British Gulag, about the crazed and systematic brutality visited on Kenya by Britain, which was the front-runner of the colonial powers engaging in hegemonic appropriation of other people's lands, would cringe at any mention of colonisation.

For indeed, the aristocratic henchmen of the British monarchy, as did the other colonialists, justified all atrocities including targeting the backsides of black, brown and other 'condemned races' with rifles for sport, under the pretext of necessary cultural and religious re-education of 'blanket' natives. And mind you, this was among the least grotesque forms of torture from their respective cookbooks.