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Towards the end of the state of emergency in 1957, the colonial government in Kenya hired the services of a retired civil servant, FD Corfield, to compile a historical survey of the circumstances in which Mau Mau grew.
A natural science graduate of Exeter College, London, Corfield had worked in Khartoum, Ethiopia and Palestine before retiring in Karen, Kenya, where he took up government assignments.
In his report Historical survey of the origins and growth of Mau Mau, Corfield blamed everyone for Mau Mau uprising except his appointing authority, the colonial government.
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