- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (March 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143118099
- ISBN-13: 978-0143118091
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #696,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A powerful and damning epic poem about the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, Aug 19 2011
By Darryl R. Morris "Kidzdoc" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Broken Word: An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It (Paperback)
This is a powerful and damning epic poem about the brutality inflicted by British colonialists on ordinary Kenyans and freedom fighters during the Mau Mau Uprising, also known as the Kenyan Emergency, which took place there from 1952-1960 and cost the lives of tens of thousands of Kenyans and 200 colonialists. The main character, Tom, is a British lad on the cusp of adulthood, whose father volunteers his services after members of the Mau Mau resistance group are reported to have savagely murdered other Kenyans who refused to take the oath to fight against the colonialists, or die in the process. Those suspected of being Mau Mau fighters are hunted down and shot like wild animals, or, worse yet, are captured, tortured and forced to work under the most inhumane conditions until they die of starvation or injury. Tom, encouraged by fellow colonialists and his family, is quickly transformed from a reluctant observer to an active participant in the worsening brutality.As the poem closes, Tom appears to have returned to a more normal existence, as he enters university and falls in love with another student. However, we are able to glimpse the subtle behaviors and beliefs that will surely haunt Tom and those nearest to him throughout the remainder of his life.
'The Broken Word" won the Costa Award for Poetry in 2008 and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2009, and deservedly so. This is easily one of the best poetry collections I've read, and its deeply moving passages deserve to be read by anyone with an interest in the Kenyan independence movement.
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