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Title: | The Kedong Massacre and the Dick Affair: A Problem in the Early Colonial Historiography of East Africa |
Authors: | Maxon, Robert M. Javersak, David |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 8 |
Pages: | 261-269 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | East Africa |
Subjects: | Maasai anticolonialism historical sources colonialism History and Exploration Bibliography/Research Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171520 |
Abstract: | On the morning of 25 November 1895 Maasai fighting men slaughtered hundreds of Kikuyu and Swahili caravan porters and askari in the Kedong Valley of Kenya (then in the Uganda Protectorate). The next day Andrew Dick, a British trader formerly with the Imperial British East African Company, learned of the massacre and resolved to avenge it. In a fierce counter-attack, Dick killed at least one hundred Maasai before being put to death himself. The present paper is concerned with the varying accounts of these incidents that are available to the historian today, and the problems of the sources of the early colonial history of East Africa. Charts, notes. |