Barack Obama's grandfather tortured by British


	Barack Obama's grandfather tortured by British

hayesstw

12-6-2008 6:05 AM

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kenya, mau mau, barack obama, british colonialism

hayesstw says:

It's interesting how things turn around.

"He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of low degree"

During the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya most of the Orthodox clergy in Kenya were held in concentration camps by the British, and most of the Orthodox churches were closed.

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Hussein Onyango Obama, Mr Obama’s paternal grandfather, became involved in the
Kenyan independence movement while working as a cook for a British army
officer after the war. He was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a
high-security prison where, according to his family, he was subjected to
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