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Kangubiri Girls High still holds a Mau Mau detention camp

Travelling through history

Kangubiri Girls High still holds a Mau Mau detention camp

Aguthi Works Camp sat on the ground where Kangubiri Girls High School stands in Tetu, Nyeri. The school name is a Gikuyu hearing of the English sentence officers used when a detainee was cleared for release: "you can go free".

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What is written down outlives the person who knew it

What is written down outlives the person who knew it

Knowledge that is written, recorded, or filed can still be read after the person who carried it is gone. What never leaves the memory leaves with them.

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Councils, clans, and law before the courtroom

Indigenous life

Councils, clans, and law before the courtroom

Indigenous political life as a working system, not a preface to colonisation.

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The 1948 Kenya Constitution, held up to the light

Documents and law

The 1948 Kenya Constitution, held up to the light

A volume that shows how law ranked people, land, and movement. Reading it is part of understanding the present.

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The White Highlands, farm by farm

Land and labour

The White Highlands, farm by farm

Settler agriculture around Nyeri, and the African land it replaced.

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Crops that were already in the field

Fields and foodways

Crops that were already in the field

Agriculture before settler cash crops, told as an economy rather than a colour plate.

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A walk through Nyeri that is not a city guide

Travelling through history

A walk through Nyeri that is not a city guide

Place names, stations, and the settler layer under the present streets.

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Four kinds of claim

Four kinds of claim

Documented fact, interpretation, oral history, and a claim that still needs proof. They do not share one label.

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Write the site before you explain it

Write the site before you explain it

Names, coordinates, who is buried or hidden, and what the sign does not say.

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The history the classroom skipped

Unlearn and relearn

The history the classroom skipped

A map of omissions: land, Mau Mau memorials, and missionary power, as they are still taught.

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Medicine before the mission hospital

Healing traditions

Medicine before the mission hospital

What communities already knew about care, plants, and who was trusted to treat.

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Mau Mau caves, from the mouth inward

Mau Mau caves, from the mouth inward

Hideouts as places with a use, not as scenery.

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