There they were superior and made laws which discriminated the native African population. Because of this, the Kenyans formed political groups whose intention was return of their land. ... He went to Britain and presented the idea of the Kenya Africa Union, which wanted the black people in Kenya to acquire power and jobs in the government, and the lands that were colonized to be returned. ...
Barelvi intended to establish a Muslim bastion on the north-west frontier in the Peshawar valley from whence to attack the British colonialists after defeating Sikh forces.[2] Prior to this he performed the hajj(pilgrimage) to Mecca in 1821 with many supporters and spent two years organizing popular and material support for his Peshawar campaign.[6] He carefully developed a network of people through the length and breadth of India to collect funds and encourage volunteers, traveling widely throughout the subcontinent of India attracting a following among pious Muslims.He returned from...
WordsWorth Interview with Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) is living the dream of most first time novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land of...
