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Continuum of Violence: Concentration Camps in Kenya

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the article is to discuss the concentration camps established by the British in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya in 1952–60 and by Kenyan authorities in North Eastern Province in 1963–67. Reconstructed is the system of camps established for the purpose of incarcerating the Mau Mau rebels. Also discussed are actions taken by the authorities in independent Kenya toward the Somali minority during the so-called Shifta War.
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409404902
FWCI: 9.876
Cites: 10
Cited by: 2
Related to: 10