2006 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya – a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain’s colonial government was to detain nearly t…