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Supporters greet Jomo Kenyatta's motorcade with one-finger salutes during a past event. [File, Standard]
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.
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