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Original Articles

“Unsound” minds and broken bodies: the detention of “hardcore” Mau Mau women at Kamiti and Gitamayu Detention Camps in Kenya, 1954–1960

Pages 590-608 | Received 14 Apr 2014, Accepted 20 Jul 2014, Published online: 19 Aug 2014

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