Utajua Hujui Aileen Waitaaga Kimuhu
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What do you know about your world? Grab a drink and join me as we learn more about the world around us through history and politics! Through an African lens of course!
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A Quick History of Kenya's National Intelligence Service
Let's learn about the NIS together :)
Sources
https://kenyanhistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/kikuyu-clans-and-their-attributes/
https://theses.hal.science/tel-03134460v1/document
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/lifestyle/society/how-the-british-government-used-reformists-to-capture-mau-mau--4082290
https://selousscouts.tripod.com/use_of_pseudo_gangs_against_the_.htm
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-14-how-a-british-policeman-helped-normalise-torture-in-a-gulf-monarchy/
https://molisa.wordpress.com/tag/kamau-ngotho/
https://www.amnesty.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afr320301990en.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2023.2211872 -
That Time Kenya was almost "New Palestine"
Let’s talk about the crisis that defined Zionism’s territorial ambitions – the Uganda Crisis and how Kenya was almost “New Palestine.”
Source
Shlomo Sand – The Invention of the Land of Israel
Shlomo Sand – The Invention of the Jewish People
Moses Joseph Roth – The Wandering Jews
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/6/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-us-house-asserts-in-dangerous-resolution
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/perils-improvising-policy-balfour-declaration-brexit/
https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.jhs.2017v49.050
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/1/9/the-zionist-fallacy-of-jewish-supremacy
https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/Zionism-is-racism
https://hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/documents/Vol03x06TheDebateonZionismandRacism.pdf
https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537573?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&searchKey=&refreqid=fastly-default%3A20fa8096e86a8dbfe2812925391ccada&seq=1
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-11-14/ty-article-opinion/the-twisted-logic-of-the-jewish-historic-right-to-israel/0000017f-db53-d3ff-a7ff-fbf3bcc50000
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/zionism/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230594371_11
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536019?seq=15
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23739770.2017.1424619?casa_token=Js_K65ZFV0gAAAAA:VdlDVIa2byHY4XgKKoQU2sqWn7x5z64pGYwi5VA14UG1uzhUYcqxldkPIS2Qtf-7tdC00BoGjW52WQ
https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12077 -
The Case for Colonialism: A Review Part 2
Welcome back for Part II! This time with a guest, and one of my long-term besties! Listen to us lose our minds, as Gilley doubles down on why colonialism ruled, and independence (for black people) droolz
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The Case for Colonialism: A Review
Aileen has some demons to work through, and one of them is people who think that colonialism has a bad rep and should make a comeback like it’s fucking mom jeans in the late 2010s-early 2020s. Oh, and like colonialism went away, which it never did.
There are no digressions this time. It is just pure, directed pettiness.
Sources
Giley's Article: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/the_case_for_colonialism
Books
Laurence Bergreen: Columbus: The Four Voyages
Patrice Lumumba: Congo, My Country, (https://archive.org/details/congomycountry0000lumu)
Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Websites
https://eastafricaschoolserver.org/content/_public/Local%20Topics/East%20Africa/British%20colonialism%20in%20East-Africa%20during%20nineteenth%20century.pdf
https://journals.openedition.org/eastafrica/586
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/152/15264516009/html/
https://www.choicehacking.com/2022/01/04/what-is-the-cobra-effect/#tve-jump-17fac229951
https://www.cato.org/commentary/case-against-case-colonialism
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6957875/christopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=tdr
https://web.pdx.edu/~gilleyb/A%20Response%20to%20My%20Critics_AQSpring2022.pdf
https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2018/02/the-good-side-of-colonialism-interview-bruce-gilley-597263/
https://fortune.com/europe/2022/09/13/queen-death-hong-kong-mourning-british-colonial-rule/ -
EP: 55 Redvers Buller & The Politics of Memory
I moved, and I’d like to talk about my new city. In particular, the Statue that greets you as you enter. And this means, talking about British imperialism, the politics of memory and the nature of commemoration.
Just remember, I really tried to breathe this time before I let the petty out lol
The UK Governments
‘Retain and Explain’ Policy: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/retain-and-explain-guidance-published-to-protect-historic-statues
Sources
James Thomas, ‘Sir Redvers Buller And The South African Light Horse’ in Soldiers and Settlers in Africa, 1850-1918
Websites
https://www.change.org/p/exeter-city-council-save-exeter-s-statue-of-sir-redvers-buller
https://www.anglozuluwar.com/images/Journal_8/J8e_Redvers_Buller_-_BB.pdf
https://castinstone.exeter.ac.uk/en/2023/08/22/redver-bullers-empire/
https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-11/BSG-WP-2019-031.pdf
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/census/events/britain7.htm
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-1.626165
http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol171ra.html
https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/UK_-Redvers-Buller-Statue-in-Exeter-England-3-1.pdf
https://www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk/history/general-sir-redvers-buller-vc/
https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/28355-how-unique-are-british-attitudes-empire -
EP 53: We Lived to Tell (The Nyayo House Story - Part II)
TW: Torture, SA, Police Brutality, Extra-Judicial Violence
In this two-parter, Aileen and Kariithi discuss the "harrowing stories of scary hounding by security agents, arrests, torture, jail and detention." Aka, the story of Nyayo House and what, if anything, we owe those who survived.
Source: https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kenia/01828.pdf