Haiti and Kenya independence · TURNING POINT ·
Nairobi (1899–1969)
1899–1969 — Founded as a railway depot in 1899 and capital from 1905. In April 1954 Operation Anvil sealed the city and sent tens of thousands of men to camps; on 5 July 1969 Tom Mboya, seen as Kenyatta’s likely heir, was shot dead here.
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- Mau Mau uprising and the Emergency (chapter 9 of Haiti and Kenya independence)
- Atlas
- Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978
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- Decolonization of Africa · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
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