Long before the Internet took over as the world’s Number One information minefield, there was The Longman Chronicle of the 20th Century. This 1,359-page tome became humankind’s greatest repository of information, data and digital images. In this memorable codex, an entry on Page 744 under the heading “Mau Mau leader Kenyatta is jailed” reads: “In a darkening courtroom, dimly lit by a pair of paraffin lamps, with bolts of lightning piercing the evening sky outside, Jomo Kenya ‘Burning Spear’ Kenyatta was sentenced to seven years’ hard labour for managing the Mau Mau terrorist society”...
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