James came around that day I read Caroline Elkins “Britain Gulags”. Although he is not from the conflicts most involved and Kenya’s largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, he knew about how the Mau Mau considered those who continued to work for white settlers to be traitors. Refusing to join the resistance was punishable by death. Eye Witnesses would recall walking around the farms with the feeling of anticipation of yet another dead body lying on the ground.