A way through the moment: Sungsoo Kim on resisting violence amid the Mau Mau rebellion

‘There are no easy answers when violence stalks the land.’

by Sungsoo Kim 1st August 2025

The compound was quiet in the afternoon heat. Then Barbara Clark heard the sound that every settler family dreaded during those troubled months of the 1950s: voices – many voices – shouting and approaching fast. Through her window, she watched fifty men running toward her home, their calls echoing across the Kenyan landscape.