Commentary The Mau Mau uprising happened in Kenya in the 1950s, and revisionist historians have argued that the uprising was a peasant’s revolt to force Kenya’s independence. It resulted in at least 30,000 horrific killings, mostly committed by the Kikuyu, against other members of this tribe and white British settlers. A recently published book challenges the claim of revisionist historians that the evils of colonialism spawned the violence, brutally repressed by the British. The book Mau Mau Whitewash—Britain Slandered by Lee Boldeman is a courageous and historically accurate attempt at describing and analysing the Mau Mau insurrection, including the origins of the terror and its aftermath. Boldeman’s book constitutes a powerful critique of the revisionist account of the Mau Mau Terror and deals objectively, impartially, and factually with this dreadful part of Kenya’s history of the 1950s. Readers who are interested in the power of historical discourse, in both its …