Colonial History - Tumblr Posts

As a person from a colonized country, I totally agree with this analysis

ancient dreams in a modern land as the experience of a country in the late 20th century grappling with the legacies of colonialism as they struggle to reconcile the history that was cut short with the progress that is now demanded of them. in order to survive in the modern world, do they have to leave behind their ancient ways of life? "our ancestors had to fight to survive just so we could have a chance of a life" (the fight for independence). "we could bear witness to the rise and the fall" (the newborn nation at a critical point in their history). "i'm trying to get back as fast i can" (back to how things were before those years of exploitation left us in the dust). "you don't have to fit into the norm, you are not here to conform" (progress doesn't have to mean conforming to the western standard). you see what i mean?

So yesterday I was using a disconnected device with word and it deleted some documents and one was research I had done on colonial flowers. When I connected the device to the internet it made some of the documents disappeared and one of it was the flower document. I am still mad but does anyone know how to recover it somehow?

The struggle for freedom; a continuously unfolding story.

Gitu wa Kahengeri. As of 2024 the centenarian is one of the few remaining Mau Mau who fought for land and freedom from British colonial rule.

Besides which in 2013 with the input of scholars, historians, and researchers such as David Anderson of Warwick University, Caroline Elkins of Harvard, and Huw Bennett of Aberystwyth University, Gitu was instrumental in securing monetary compensation for some Mau Mau as far as losses, incarceration, or brutal treatment that captured fighters were subjected to within a labyrinth of detention camps constructed by the colonial administration for purposes of quelling the Mau Mau's quest for Kenya's independence.

History; separating fact from fiction.

To think that an entire legend has been spun around Jomo Kenyatta, depicting Kenya's so called founding father as some kind of radical freedom fighter who helmed the struggle against British colonialism.

But in this interview (with the BBC presumably) which was held several years after independence from Britain, actual Mau Mau freedom fighters in vein of Bildad Kaggia and Fred Kubai reveal differently.

Because according to either Kubai or Kaggia it wasn't until the Mau Mau's Central Committee summoned Jomo Kenyatta to answer for one or two perceived slights, that the old man who was in no ways involved with the operations of the Mau Mau found out who its leaders were.

Look man, I KNOW classical composer Tumblr exists because those classical composer memes have to be coming from somewhere. But how on earth do I hop on it!? Is it like one of those moving elevators, where you have to step on quickly and hope you come out!? To me it's like the backrooms or something. Do you have to type in some sorta key, is it going to ask me to match these concertos by key signature to delve inside the secret catacombs of classical composer-blr? Will there be a 7 dwarves mining cart roller coaster waiting there except instead of the dwarves its the ducking CLASSICAL COMPOSERS!? What, do I gotta send pictures of my violin-ridden hands as proof, do I gotta submit cat boy Mozart fanart/fics,

CLASSICAL COMPOSER BLR WHERE ARE YOU HIDING!?

(I'm currently on amrev/frevblr seriously send help)