A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (Dap @ Agnes)

Posted by the Ghetto Intellectual on 3/11/2010 

See also: "Imperial reckoning" - The untold story of Britain's gulag in Kenya (2005) by Caroline Elkins

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THE FILM

A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony is a documentary film by Donald McWilliams about the Mau Mau Rebellion in 1950s Kenya – one of the most contentious final episodes in British colonial history. Evoking his mentor Norman McLaren, McWilliams employs a broad palette of cinematic devices, framing personal photos with animation and archival imagery.

tags: kenya, mau mau, colonialism, resistance, revolution