A young student rests his cheek on his fisted hand, furrows his brows, and concentrates on an open notebook on his desk at the Mweru High School in Kenya’s central Nyeri district. Rusty barbed wire snakes along the top of the brick walls encircling the class room.
About 60 years ago, this institution was called the Mweru Works Camp – one of dozens of detention camps that were established during British colonial rule. Tens of thousands of actual or suspected members of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), more commonly known as the ‘Mau Mau’, were brutally tortured and executed in these camps.
