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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

Hello everyone!

Welcome to part II of our Experiment! In this phase, we learn that our real enemy was neither the sound quality, nor patience, but sunlight. The sun quit before we did hahaha

You can watch the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLs3pV4AcwuJN3VfVknXGh7vOEviA_lax

Hello everyone!

You get to be part of not just one experiment but two! For this two-parter, Aileen and Kariithi talk about everything and anything as we try to record a video podcast for the first time (Experiment I) and see what is in shorter supply, our patience or our whiskey (Experiment 2).

Drinks were provided by us, although we will not turn down sponsorship from KWAL (whose beverages inspired much of the drunken conversations that inspired this podcast)

You can watch the video version here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLs3pV4AcwuJN3VfVknXGh7vOEviA_lax

Inspired by Barbieheimer, this week Aileen and Kariithi talk about uranium mining in Africa, and what the nuclear age meant for the motherland.

Discretions: Barbie (ofc), Oppenheimer (offc), Black Panther,

Sources

Books

Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle – Thomas Borstelmann

Spies in the Congo – Susan Williams

Being Nuclear (Africans and the Global Uranium Trade) – Gabrielle Hecht

Everything Else (lol)

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200712/physicshistory.cfm

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/mining-of-uranium/world-uranium-mining-production.aspx

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/7/7/a-beginners-guide-to-enriching-uranium

https://www.jstor.org/stable/161468

https://qz.com/africa/1216925/searching-for-wakanda-the-african-roots-of-the-black-panther-story

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589346.2012.683940

https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=1141

https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/masiza11.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/static/review-spies-in-congo.pdf

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1152&context=gc_etds

https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=history_etds

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/uploads/documents/The%20Congo%20Crisis%2C%201960-1961.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4185615

Aileen and Kariithi talk big picture history, as they attempt to tackle why different peoples around the world experienced different levels of technological innovation? And whether Africa was truly "left behind..." Digressions include: Love Island, Football, HIMYM and Kenyan Presidential History Sources Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs and Steel Chloe Campbell – Race and Empire (Eugenics in Colonial Kenya) Ian Harris – Why the West Rules, for Now Walter Rodney – How Europe Underdeveloped Africa https://qz.com/africa/2110046/africas-prehistoric-technological-advances-changed-the-worldhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/417t1w/disease_in_the_new_world/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6meq1k/comment/dk6htc0/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8nr7xd/thoughts_on_guns_germs_and_steel_by_jared_diamond/ https://www.wired.com/story/ancient-grain-crops-future-of-farming/

Aileen and Kariithi discuss the death of Robert Ouko, and why some things ought to remain a secret. In Part I, we discussed the life and death of Dr Ouko; laying the groundwork for an exploration of the why, and who. In Part II, we interrogate the suspects and get to the bottom of it.

Digressions include: Mean Girls, Serial Killers (Aileen Wurnos), Africa Reclaiming her Narrative, Job, Pineapples and the CIA

Important Time Stamps:

• Banter (0:50 - 16:40)
• The Ouko Murder (16:40 - 1:14:30)
• The State of African Leaders (1:14:30 - End)

Sources

• Kenya, A History Since Independence (Charles Hornsby)
• TJRC Report 2A: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.sourceafrica.net/documents/25050/Kenya-Tjrc-Report-Volume-2a.pdf

Websites

• https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-02-04-how-corruption-almost-ran-down-kenya-under-mois-watch/
• https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/adar_munyae_winter01/
• https://theconversation.com/how-moi-put-foreign-policy-at-the-centre-of-his-presidency-134048https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/opinion/moi-left-an-indelible-mark-in-kenya-s-foreign-policy-248912http://www.kenyaunsolved.com/anguka.html
• http://kenyadocexcom.ipage.com/uploads/2/7/3/5/2735307/troonpara38.jpg
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110306172924/http://kenyaunsolved.com/evidence/?p=142
• https://nation.africa/kenya/news/robert-ouko-murder-fear-still-stalks-koru-29-years-later-137952
• https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-03-05-moi-era-robert-oukos-murderers-are-still-alive/
• http://www.kenyaunsolved.com/robertouko1.html
• https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/4761530.0007.009/--reading-the-ministers-remains-investigations-into-the-death?rgn=main;view=fulltext
• https://www.ocikenya.com/honoree-dr-robert-ouko
• https://cabinets.kenyayearbook.co.ke/2022/05/05/dr-robert-john-ouko-kenyas-most-celebrated-foreign-minister/
• https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/45673107.pdf
• https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978NAIROB15351_d.html

Aileen and Kariithi discuss the death of Robert Ouko, and why some things ought to remain a secret. In Part I, we discuss the life and death of Dr Ouko; laying the groundwork for an exploration of the why, and who.

Digressions include: Artificial Wombs, Friends (Ross), Basketball, Sports, Thriller

Sources

Kenya, A History Since Independence (Charles Hornsby)

TJRC Report 2A: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3.sourceafrica.net/documents/25050/Kenya-Tjrc-Report-Volume-2a.pdf

Websites:

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-02-04-how-corruption-almost-ran-down-kenya-under-mois-watch/

https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/adar_munyae_winter01/

https://theconversation.com/how-moi-put-foreign-policy-at-the-centre-of-his-presidency-134048

https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/opinion/moi-left-an-indelible-mark-in-kenya-s-foreign-policy-248912

http://www.kenyaunsolved.com/anguka.html

http://kenyadocexcom.ipage.com/uploads/2/7/3/5/2735307/troonpara38.jpg

https://web.archive.org/web/20110306172924/http://kenyaunsolved.com/evidence/?p=142

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/robert-ouko-murder-fear-still-stalks-koru-29-years-later-137952

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-03-05-moi-era-robert-oukos-murderers-are-still-alive/

http://www.kenyaunsolved.com/robertouko1.html

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/4761530.0007.009/--reading-the-ministers-remains-investigations-into-the-death?rgn=main;view=fulltext

https://www.ocikenya.com/honoree-dr-robert-ouko

https://cabinets.kenyayearbook.co.ke/2022/05/05/dr-robert-john-ouko-kenyas-most-celebrated-foreign-minister/

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/45673107.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978NAIROB15351_d.html

Aileen is joined by Kariithi and GM to discuss the trial of the Kapenguria 6. And the idea that the more things change, the more they stay the same

Sources

Charles Hornsby, Kenya: A History Since Independence

Anaïs Angelo, Power and the Presidency: The Jomo Kenyatta Years

David Anderson, Histories of the Hanged

David Branch, Between Hope and Despair

CRIMINAL APPEAL 276, 277, 278, 279, 280 & 281 OF 1953 (Kenyatta, Kubai, Achieng, Kaggia, Ngei, Karumba v Regina [1954])

https://sites.google.com/site/bildadkaggiafoundation/events-and-highlights-of-kaggias-life/the-trial-at-kapenguria-and-detention

https://chiimbirugimode.com/2021/02/22/star-witness-who-pocketed-ksh-317k-to-fix-the-kapenguria-six-later-charged-with-perjury/

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/news/article/2001258352/the-judge-who-jailed-uhurus-father

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/my-dogged-struggle-to-free-kenyatta-and-the-kapenguria-six-from-jail-183950

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/lal.2011.23.1.26.pdf

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1958/oct/30/kenya-white-highlands

https://hardtalkkenyan.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/jogging-our-minds-towards-mzee-jomo-kenyattas-kapenguria-trial-a-birds-eye-view-of-kapenguria-one-1/

Join Aileen and Kariithi as we discuss the life and times of the Mau Mau Lawyer: Clement Michael George Argwings Kodhek.

Digressions include: Frozen, Kenyan Traffic Law and Nuclear Weapons

Sources

Books

• The Black Bar –Paul Mwangi
• Kenya, A History Since Independence – Charles Hornsby
• Between Hope and Despair – Daniel Branch
• Kenyatta Cabinets – Kenya Yearbook The Politics of the Independence of Kenya – Keith Kyle

Websites

• https://www.migorinews.co.ke/features/history-feature-argwings-kodhek-luos-push-for-kenya-independence/
• https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000162952/kenya-my-life-with-cmg-argwings-kodhek
• https://iks.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/Thoughts%20on%20Assassination%20in%20Africa%20Ali%20Mazrui.pdf
• https://artsandculture.google.com/story/7wXxO36pSrXmLA
• https://nation.africa/kenya/news/argwings-kodhek-the-politician-history-should-never-forget-132134
• https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/counties/article/2001310960/argwings-kodhek-a-native-upstart-who-dared-marry-a-white-woman
• https://fliphtml5.com/yvqhd/kcos/basic/201-250

Join Aileen and Kariithi as we talk about the life and death of Tom Mboya.

Digressions include: too many to name. Enjoy the Chaos! Embrace the Pandemonium :)

Sources

Charles Hornsby – Kenya, A History Since Independence

Daniel Branch – Kenya, Between Hope and Despair

Mary L. Dudziak – Exporting American Dreams, Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey

Tom Mboya – Freedom and After

Tom Mboya – The Challenge of Nationhood

TJRC Report

OCTOPIZZO - Tom Mboya- (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WurPqo8jeTI&ab_channel=OCTOPIZZO)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161117-third-culture-kids-citizens-of-everywhere-and-nowhere

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/t-magazine/luca-guadagnino-third-culture-kids.html

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/mboya-njonjo-and-their-unbridled-ambition-to-gain-political-power-183608

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/the-untold-story-of-tom-mboya-death-3684132?fbclid=IwAR3xSt0_qpqY0O0NPU5CNbFIPxZ-6HsUFWmLVibdm_yqYG7_rPT5ZUENmPk

https://projects.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/210-808-8918/ARGreportopt.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975NAIROB01174_b.html

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=miami1313975817&disposition=inline

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/144509/1/JSH_McCann_accepted_MS.pdf

Join Aileen and Kariithi as we talk about the life and death of Tom Mboya.

Digressions are too many to name. Enjoy the Chaos! Embrace the Pandemonium :)

Sources

Charles Hornsby – Kenya, A History Since Independence

Daniel Branch – Kenya, Between Hope and Despair

Mary L. Dudziak – Exporting American Dreams, Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey

Tom Mboya – Freedom and After

Tom Mboya – The Challenge of Nationhood

TJRC Report

Tom Mboya Speech – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwG22EZmEfE

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161117-third-culture-kids-citizens-of-everywhere-and-nowhere

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/t-magazine/luca-guadagnino-third-culture-kids.html

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/mboya-njonjo-and-their-unbridled-ambition-to-gain-political-power-183608

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/the-untold-story-of-tom-mboya-death-3684132?fbclid=IwAR3xSt0_qpqY0O0NPU5CNbFIPxZ-6HsUFWmLVibdm_yqYG7_rPT5ZUENmPk

https://projects.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/210-808-8918/ARGreportopt.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975NAIROB01174_b.html

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=miami1313975817&disposition=inline

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/144509/1/JSH_McCann_accepted_MS.pdf

Aileen is joined by her fellow history nerd, Kariithi to talk about the late, great JM Kariuki. And why you should never outshine your master.

Sources

https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/24/1.0401458/3

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329116987_Mobility_Confinement_and_the_Politics_of_Exile_A_Study_of_Manyani_Detention_Camp_in_Kenya_1952-1963_A_Historical_Account

https://theverdict.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-Black-Bar.pdf

https://twitter.com/historykenya101/status/1366608534088134656?lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31817667

https://archive.org/stream/maumaudetaineefull/mau%20mau%20detainee%20full_djvu.txt

https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=tjrc-core

http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/38631/Full%20Text.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Aileen is joined by her fellow history nerd, Kariithi to talk about the late, great JM Kariuki. And why you should never fuck with SDE

Digressions: SDE, Thanos, Baby Brothers

Sources

https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/24/1.0401458/3

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329116987_Mobility_Confinement_and_the_Politics_of_Exile_A_Study_of_Manyani_Detention_Camp_in_Kenya_1952-1963_A_Historical_Account

https://theverdict.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-Black-Bar.pdf

https://twitter.com/historykenya101/status/1366608534088134656?lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31817667

https://archive.org/stream/maumaudetaineefull/mau%20mau%20detainee%20full_djvu.txt

https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=tjrc-core

http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/38631/Full%20Text.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

In this special, Aileen contextualises the James Finlay saga; explaining that they are a symptom of an exploitative system that benefits the dynasties at the expense of hustlers. The kind of system the Government may, ultimately, be invested in maintaining.

Sources:

KNBS Economic Survey 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMdnCx6eUc– BBC Expose

https://www.finlays.net/about-us/locations/kenya/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4370678

https://www.history.com/news/east-india-company-england-trade

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64662056

https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/bomet/boy-9-decapitated-by-tea-plucking-machine-at-james-finlay-tea-estate-4089844

https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/bomet/james-finlay-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-4017830

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/realtime/2023-02-21-finlays-speaks-on-sexual-harassment-allegations-after-bbc-expos/

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/01/keny-o01.html

https://fairtradeafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/James-Finlay-Kitumbe-Group-Digital.pdf

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/tea-farms-brew-sexual-abuse-and-misery-for-poor-workers-230376

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226274290_Fairtrade_Facts_and_Fancies_What_Kenyan_Fairtrade_Tea_Tells_us_About_Business'_Role_as_Development_Agent

https://www.financeuncovered.org/stories/jp-morgan-opl245-dan-etete-suspicious-activity-reports-nca-fiu-fincen-nigeria

https://www.ft.com/content/dc633303-da14-4f94-bbfe-46fcec66dce4

https://www.finlays.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Modern-Slavery-Statement-2021.pdf

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-12-10-james-finlays-contractors-deny-child-labour-claims/

https://finlayscommunitytrust.co.ke/chemasingi-secondary-school-a-first-of-its-kind-tea-estate-mixed-day-school/

https://globalnaps.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/kenya.pdf

https://assets.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/app/uploads/2022/11/Starbucks-CHRB-scorecard-2022.pdf