Category: British colonialism

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Opinion by Ulrika Waaranperä, doctoral student in political science at Lund University and Malmö University On 6 June 2013, the then British Foreign Secretary William Hague made an historic statement in which he apologised for the abuses the colonial administration was guilty of in Kenya between 1952 and 1963. The statement was made in conjunction with the payment of damages equivalent to SEK 275 million to 5 228 elderly Kenyans. That the British colonial...