MAPS OF HISTORY · HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE · BATTLES AND EVENTS · Harry Thuku protest shootingHaiti and Kenya independence · SITE OF MEMORY · 1922
Harry Thuku protest shooting (1922)
On the Haiti and Kenya independence map as “The Thuku shooting”
16 Mar 1922 — Outside Nairobi’s police lines, a crowd calls for Harry Thuku’s release. Police and settlers fire on the crowd, killing 21 people by the official count. Among the dead is Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru, who led the women.
When 16 Mar 1922 Type Site of memory Chapter White Highlands of colonial Kenya (chapter 7 of Haiti and Kenya independence)Atlas Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978 SITE OF MEMORY · TWO ROADS TO INDEPENDENCE: HAITI 1789–1838 AND KENYA 1895–1978 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — Jubba River, with the 1918 Kenya boundary map · Kenya Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (2010), historical boundary maps 1–8 · Kenya Colony annual report, 1932 — territorial chronology · Kenya Independence Order in Council 1963, Schedule 11 — districts and regions · Kenya Land Commission report (1933), foldout: European Highlands, reserves and railways · Science Museum Group — Kenya and Uganda Railways
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately. Natural Earth — Jubba River, with the 1918 Kenya boundary map. Public domain Kenya Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (2010), historical boundary maps 1–8. Official boundary facts consulted; independently reconstructed geography. Original scan not republished. Kenya Colony annual report, 1932 — territorial chronology. 1930s UK government historical facts consulted Kenya Independence Order in Council 1963, Schedule 11 — districts and regions. UK legislation, Open Government Licence; factual regional definitions. Kenya Land Commission report (1933), foldout: European Highlands, reserves and railways. 1934 UK Crown publication; original map facts independently digitized. Original scan not republished. Science Museum Group — Kenya and Uganda Railways. Factual route and opening dates consulted Colonial boundaries follow dated published imperial outlines. The 1963 regions use complete later provincial geometry as the closest digital reference, checked against the original legal district membership.
The Highlands, reserves and forests are thematic study regions reconstructed from the 1933 commission map. The Kinangop grouping is removed after redistribution. The retained fills are regional historical land references, not an inventory of individual farm ownership.
reconstruction: 1901 main line; acquired 1933 railway reference · reconstruction: 1920.55 · reconstruction: 1933 source reference · vector: 1920.55
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