Kenya research

KENYA

1903 – A trail, Thomas Cholmondeley heir to the Delamere fortune. A family who farmed in Kenya since the third Baron arrived in 1903, they own land. Talk in Kenya of forced repossession of farms owned by whites. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

1920-1953 – In 1949 when David Steel was 11, his parents decided to move to Kenya. Scottish population in Kenya and Uganda. Declared a colony in 1920, Kenya has British settlers, but there is segregation of blacks and whites. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

1940-60 – By the 1940s 30,000 British farmers had 12,000 square miles of land in Kenya. Poverty, starvation and landless native people. Oct 1952 British governor was Sir Evelyn Baring. State of emergency. Arrest and detention of many people from March 1953 in detention camps in Kenya. State of emergency until 12 Jan 1960, propaganda about the Mau Mau. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1950-67 – From India to Nairobi Kenya. One of 32,000 Gujarati workers who built the trans Kenyan railway. 2,500 men died and 7,000 were invalid and sent back to India. Independence in 1963. By 1967 new laws on trade. (Who do you think you are. The genealogy handbook BBC UK 2014).

15 Nov 1952 – Sir Thomas Lloyd and Sir Evelyn Baring. The Times UK. Intel and counter intel on Kenya. 22 Nov 1952. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

End 1952 – Mass deportations and detentions of about 78,000 native people in Kenya. By the end of 1952 at least 18,000 Kenyans were held in custody in 176 detention centres .Abuse of detainees, interrogated Mau Mau. Forced relocation of mass population. Women were raped and abused. Compared to Soviet gulag. Torture in Kenya by police. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1952-54 – Kenya, a police state, forced registrations, detention without trial as punishment. Alex MacDonald was the Colonial officer and intel advisor. Kenya special branch. Propaganda, operation Jock Scott on 20 Oct 1952 declaration of emergency. Operation Anvil on April 1954 repression, coercion. 45,000 people forcibly removed from Namibia. 16,500 detained in camps. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1952-56 – Kenya, British colonial rule 1950s, violent counter insurgency and rebellion, Mau Mau. Oct 1953 till 1956. British forces held 20,000 Africans. The British incarcerated at least 80,000 native Africans in camps. Forced labour like the Soviet gulag system. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

End 1952 – Mass deportations and detentions of about 78,000 native people in Kenya. By the end of 1952 at least 18,000 Kenyans were held in custody in 176 detention centres. Abuse of detainees, interrogated Mau Mau. Forced relocation of mass population. Women were raped and abused. Compared to Soviet gulag. Torture in Kenya by police. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

Dec 1952 – 20,000 Mau Mau killed and many more disappeared. One million people were forcibly displaced. Women were raped. Property was confiscated. Records from the foreign office were held in an archive at Hanslope park. M15 and Mau Mau in Kenya. In Dec 1952 Alec MacDonald flew to Nairobi as an M15 officer. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

10 Dec 1953 – Court of inquiry, letter to Erskine to security. Torture and the height of empire. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

June 1957 – Eric Griffiths Jones was attorney general of the British government in Kenya. Secrecy about detention camps for the Mau Mau. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

18 June 1963 – Organisation of intel service in the colony Kenya. British governor Nairobi to FD Webber. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton (c)2013).

14 Aug 1963 – Griffith Jones to FD Webber. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1964-70s – Poverty does not appear out of nowhere. Survival and food. Since the 1970s US global satellites could measure local rainfall. Children born in 1964 in Kenya were often called Uhuru or freedom in Swahili. Wanjala means born in hunger or Njaa. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Maguel (c)2008 US).

1968 – British Richard Billing Dearlove M16 working in Nairobi Kenya and visiting South Africa's Boss. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

29 December 1972 – Stuart Hugh MacDonald was born in Nairobi Kenya.

9 August 1975 – Kirstin Fiona MacDonald was born in Nairobi Kenya.

30 October 1984 – Martin David MacDonald was born in Nairobi Kenya.

1998 – al Qaeda attacked the US embassy in Nairobi Kenya and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. 213 people were killed. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

2 Feb 1999 – Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan tried to enter Holland. The Dutch governmenr refused him entry. Dutch security at Amsterdam's Schipol airport. So Ocalan caught a KLM flight to Nairobi Kenya. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

2002 – Brother John Paschal Prendergast. Christian brothers at Saint Bakhita, in Kitale north west Kenya. Catholic.

Oct 2002 – Two shoulder fired missiles nearly downed an Israeli passenger plane with thousands of passengers going to Tel Aviv from Kenya. The 275 people on the plane were lucky. Al-Qaeda. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

22 Jan 2004 – BBC Africa. Huge pay rise for Kenya's police.

Late 2004 – A ton of cocaine was seized in Kenya. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2005 – Caroline Elkins. Imperial reckoning. The untold story of Britains gulag in Kenya. The brutal end of empire in Kenya. London UK. Jonathan Cape. New York. Henry Holt.

2005 – David Anderson. Histories of the hanged. Britains dirty war in Kenya and the end of empire. London Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

2008 – Crowd sourcing data through Ushahidi platform, software tool for info collection and interactive mapping, of the 2008 Kenyan elections. To monitor elections, conflicts and other things around the world. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).

2009 – A group of Kenyans got a lawyer. Sued the British govt for gross abuses while held as Mau May 50 years ago. During colonial emergency in Kenya. The existence of 8,800 files from the colonial office appeared. Records recovered, were to cover up govt abuses and torture. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton (c)2013).

2011-2012 – In 2011 the foreign office opened 1,500 classified files on the Kenyan Mau Mau in 300 boxes. At a secret facility at Hanslope park. Secret records made public in Aug 2012. Mau Mau were beaten to death, burned alive, castrated and kept in manacles for years. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

13 April 2011 – Ben Macintyre. The Times UK. British Secret Mau Mau files.(Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

2012 – Kenya a history since independence. Charles Hornsby. Google books.

2013 – CRA crisis tracker data, plotted on Ushahidi from radios, to monitor each incident plotted on a map, deaths and injuries, abductions and looting. Incidents captured by mobile cameras, on a website and evidence. In Kibera, Nairobi Kenya’s largest slum. Local officials witheld electricity and rubbish collection. Water is controlled by corrupt officials. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert. ©2013 Canada).

Dec 2014 – A British man was found guilty of sexually abusing Kenyan street children. Leighday UK Daily.

20 Jan 2015 – Kenyan police fired tear gas at children in a playground. Nairobi school children, illegal confiscation of playground. ABC online.

7 June 2015 – A trial for an Oklahoma man who is charged with the sex abuse of Kenyan orphans. A US paedophile. Yahoo news. AP. Tim Talley.

12 June 2015 – VOA. Kenya risks US sanctions for failing to stop human trafficking.

24 July 2015 – Volunters visit Kenyan orphanages. Orphans they sponsored, with childen in the slums of Kenya. Amarillo.com.

15 Oct 2015 – 63 police officers have been fired for corruption in Kenya. The accounts of junior officers were investigated. Yahoo news.

30 Jan 2016 – Missing people. http://allafrica.com/stories/201601300266.html

2 Feb 2016 – Dead New Zealander phones family after 30 years to say he is in jail in Kenya. Francis Edward Strange age 56. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11583058