Forced removal of Kikuyu from settled areas begins
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- Imperial reckoning - the untold story of Britains Gulag in whole source · open book
Ndiritu’s family was part of the first wave of Kikuyu deportations that began in December 1952 and rolled through other settled areas of Kenya, eventually on to Nairobi and Mombasa, and finally to the neighboring British colonies of Tanganyika and Uganda, where thousands of Kikuyu had migrated in search of land and employment after their displacement during the early years of British rule.
chapter: Britain’s Assault on Mau Mau