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Archival films from 1950s Kenya turn settler home windows into a lens on the Mau Mau uprising, revealing how British and American movies framed anti-colonial resistance as the villains of a Western.

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  • Laura-Issé Tusevo

    Laura-Issé Tusevo

    Narrator in English

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Archival films from 1950s Kenya turn settler home windows into a lens on the Mau Mau uprising, revealing how British and American movies framed anti-colonial resistance as the villains of a Western.

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