A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (2009)

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A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.
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A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.

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