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  • 3 - “Operation Legacy”

  • from Part I - Struggle to Conceal
  • Riley Linebaugh, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Book:
    Curating the Colonial Past
    Published online:
    12 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 87-122

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 examines the programmatic consolidation, destruction, and removal of sensitive documents in Kenya and East Africa to London as constitutional negotiations were underway as a way to simultaneously curate, in ways favorable to British interests, materials for the writing of colonial history and for the making of a postcolonial political order. It presents recordkeeping as a political project through which the outgoing colonial government in Kenya attempted to strategically furnish the incoming independent government with documents that would facilitate structural continuity during the transition to political independence while at the same time removing those which might jeopardize British interests, at the personal and governmental levels, thereby creating the conditions for impunity.