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Dawood Ali McCallum with his book and a weapon from the Mau Mau era
OLD Town based human rights British,” said Dawood.
expert Dawood Ali McCallum has “Yet only 32 whites died but over
written his fourth book examining 2,000 Kikuyu tribes people were
British colonial involvement in killed by Kikuyu in the Mau Mau
Kenya through the arrest and trial movement.
of an 80 year old British doctor “There are major questions about
accused of war crimes in 1954, where responsibility lies for past
during the period known as the Mau wrongs and who decides who is
Mau uprising. condemned as a terrorist and whom
Dawood tells a complex story lauded as a freedom fighter: themes
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