The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. ... The word "Kikuyu" serves as the name of a native tribe in Kenya. ... The poet also describes a centuries-old hunting custom of natives walking in a line through the long grass and beating it to flush out prey. Such killing for sustenance is set against the senseless and random death that native Africans and European settlers perpetrate upon each other. ...

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During the years following the Berlin Conference the British and French governments sought to covert their grandiose territorial claims into valid title by effective occupation. ... To insure that British requirements were fulfilled, a resident was appointed to the court of each native ruler of the first rank. ... The British as well as the Germans used the idea of "Imperial monarchy" to govern their colonies, allowing little governmental rule from the natives opposing French colonial rule. ...

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He made a speech in the House of Commons in 1792 in which he said, "I know of no evil that has ever existed worse than the tearing of 70,000 or 80,000 people each year from their native land. " He frequently and strongly voiced his opinions to the rest of the MPs to try to persuade them to join the cause for although he was Prime Minister he still had to gain enough votes from his counterparts to pass the act. ... Clarkson attended Cambridge University and won an essay competition; the essay's title was "Is it right to make men slaves against their will " For this essay he had done consid...

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In 1803, the Mughal kingdom down-fell. This conclusion happened from many days before due to the inner weakness of the Indian- subcontinent. The Mughal rule, in one word, had been easily turned in the hand of British Imperialism very easily, the power was given to the british , even before they ...

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