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It travels like the never-setting imperial sun across Asia, Africa and outposts of the ... a throwback to the British Empire’s pink map. This is a shame, because a book that lived up to ...
A new book by the historian Stacey Hynd shows the depth of British atrocities in Kenya and in Africa as a whole. The idea that the end of the British empire was peaceful is deeply embedded in the ...
Kenya — Though Queen Elizabeth II was revered by many in Africa, her death also reignited a different sort of conversation — one that touched on the legacy of the British Empire and the ...
It spoke of "the wrath of our rivals" over the continual enlargement of the British Empire, referred to Egypt, the Soudan, and South Africa, and added: "And now, even before our German friends ...
At the height of the British ... in Africa and elsewhere wrote off nonviolence less quickly. Regardless of how incremental or indirect the progress could seem in the moment, empire’s financial ...