By KAMAU NGOTHOMore by this AuthorIn April 60 years ago, Peter Poole, a white settler in colonial Kenya, employed a cook known as Kamawe Musunge. To his utter surprise and that of the white settler community in Kenya, he was arraigned in court and charged with murder. The story made world headlines and aroused great fury in white settlers and among the racists in Britain and everywhere else in the world. A bathtub was ferried to Nairobi Prison (now Industrial Area Prison) for Poole to be baptised through immersion. With all petitions for mercy rejected, he sent for Rev Bombay and made a last confession: “Now I know for sure I will be hanged.

Source: Daily Nation April 28, 2019 08:36 UTC