Author: WILSON CHRISTOPHER
Title: Before the Dawn in Kenya
Description: Nairobi, The English Press. 1953, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 grams) 'An Authentic Account of Life in East Africa when it was under African Rule', yellow boards soiled, some splitting to upper joint, book internally clean apart from some age browning to the end papers and on to some margins, 134pp, an insightful look into the savagery and terror of life in East Africa before the civilizing influence of the British East Africa Company and British social and legal institutions, includes ; prehistory / custom, superstition and witchcraft / Masai / Kikuyu / African self-government / some African rulers / slavery / the African woman / arrival of the British, gives an idea of the reason for the growth and continuance of the separation of the black and white communities in Africa as based on unbridgeable differences in custom and mentality between the two. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Kenya Africa Colonial Ancient African Rule African History East Afric Pre-Colonial African Savagery Savage British East Africa Company Race Race Issues Racism Racialism White Supremacy


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