White settlers invaded State House in 1952 in protest

Organising a protest near State House, Kenya’s seat of power might be the height of folly and a great miscalculation, akin to signing your death warrant.

But such a protest did happen on the well-manicured lawns. It all had to do with the havoc visited upon the settler community by the rag tag military wing of the Mau Mau.  

Following the declaration of the State of Emergency in Kenya in October 1952, Mau Mau became more savage, killing a number of whites and Africans opposed to their forced oathing rites.

Among those killed was Roger...