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THE GREAT WHITE DECEPTION

A DISTORTION OF HISTORY FILLED WITH BLOOD

Samuel Phillips

really cannot tell you when, recorded about Afrika always favors I will share two stories to paint a
why or how I began to take their ideology and perspective about picture of the distortion of history
a closer look at the history savage Afrikans, while at the same and how it has created a very weird
I Afrika and the events that time leaving out the horrors in their honor for one side and dishonor
of
fill that history. Yes, I sat in history own history in order to paint the for the other. A very well articu-
class in my junior secondary school image of a superior, well-bred and lated white angel and a black angel
and definitely loved the things I civilized race, with no rotten bones narrative.
read about Afrika, howbeit, I know in their cupboards. But those days
now that some of those things were are gone where no one has the right Kenya’s “savage” Mau Mau free-
tempered down to allow our young to relook the distorted history and dom fighters
minds comprehend what was being see clearly where, how and why it Up until a short while ago, I had
taught, but I never thought I could, was distorted to fit the narrative of always thought that the name Mau
one day, be this me that is now try- the true savages who think going Mau was the original name of the
ing my little best to speak to and for to other people’s land, raping and freedom fighters that saw to the
the Afrikan people. killing their women and children, liberation and the independence of
hanging the men who refuse to do Kenya from the British imperialists.
Not many things are clear yet their slave-master biddings, is some- I came across something that got
concerning Afrikan history, how it how a noble ideology of conquering my attention, while I was reading
was distorted by the pale skin guys, of foreign lands for their imperial a book titled A People Called The
and how that they worked very hard foolishness and murderous thirst for Agikuyu: Yesterday and Today and
to make sure that every story they blood. Tommorrow. The book was written

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