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Unlearn and relearn

What was taught, and what was left out.

School history, popular memory, and the work of separating a colonial myth from a documented fact.

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The history the classroom skipped

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

Mugo Wa Njoroge

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The myth that settlers arrived to unused country, and the systems that were already there.

Place-name history, from Maasai and Agikuyu references to colonial renaming.

What families repeat that a textbook still will not print.

A distinction Mugo keeps making: practice, doctrine, and the colonial institutions that travelled with the church.

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Mugo Wa Njoroge5 articles · 3 reads