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22 July 1954 Parliament praises friendly Kenya while debating emergency war 2 cit. After a parliamentary visit to Kenya, A. G. Bottomley told the Commons that he had found a friendly relationship across Kenya's European, African, Asian and Arab communities. In the same debate he described the settler household view of the African servant as a "faithful creature" grateful to an owner, while members also discussed a shooting war, emergency powers and roughly 40,000 people in camps. The hypocrisy is plain: Africans were praised when imagined as loyal dependants, then treated as an enemy population when they demanded land and power. colonialism / kenya / propaganda / war ●●●
16 February 1955 Britain asks for African goodwill while camps hold tens of thousands 3 cit. In February 1955 a Commons debate framed Kenya policy around the need to win African loyalty and goodwill. The same exchange discussed indiscriminate sweeps that had drawn in loyal Kikuyu, Home Guard abuses and about 50,000 people held in camps. The contradiction is the point: goodwill was demanded from the colonized while emergency government treated whole communities as suspect material to be screened, detained, moved and disciplined. colonialism / detention / kenya / propaganda ●●●