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Colonialism on Trial: The Kenyatta Case
Abrahams, Peter | July 11, 1953 issue

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The Jomo Kenyatta trial is one of the most significant events in recent African history. Native Africans, as well as many of their sympathizers in England and elsewhere, consider that in the defendant's dock stands not only an individual native African leader but colonialism itself in all its aspects, political, economic, and cultural. Kenyatta's appeal against his conviction of the crime of managing the Mau Mau terrorist society began last week before the Nairobi Supreme Court in the small town of Kitale in Kenya. Kenyatta and five co-defendants were each sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for managing the secret society and three years for membership in it, the sentences to run concurrently.

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KENYATTA, Jomo -- Trials, litigation, etc.; ACTIONS & defenses; SENTENCES (Criminal procedure); IMPERIALISM; SECRET societies; AFRICA
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