{"id":3179,"date":"2025-04-03T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/kenyas-colonial-inequalities-continue-decades-after-independence-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:56:34","slug":"kenyas-colonial-inequalities-continue-decades-after-independence-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/kenyas-colonial-inequalities-continue-decades-after-independence-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s colonial inequalities continue, decades after independence  &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrDwkJ6d9UE?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Black Lives Matter protests in the UK and the debate over public statues have shone a light on the nation\u2019s imperial past and its continuing reverberations. <\/p>\n<p>Kenya was at the heart of the British Empire in Africa, with the country\u2019s best and most fertile land owned by a small elite.  <\/p>\n<p>The country gained independence in 1963 but land ownership and distribution remains a divisive issue. <\/p>\n<p>In the latest of a series of reports looking at Britain\u2019s colonial legacies, Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting from Anne Soy in Kenya. <\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NrDwkJ6d9UE\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Lives Matter protests in the UK and the debate over public statues have shone a light on the nation\u2019s imperial past and its continuing reverberations. Kenya was at the heart of the British Empire in Africa, with the country\u2019s best and most fertile land owned by a small elite. The country gained independence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[434,6297,15,169,424,6288,4274,59,6161,6280,6281,6174,6292,6285,6286,1883,193,6282,5007,3717,6287,3601,6283,6289,6290,6295,6296,368,6284,6293,6291,6294,894],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-africa","tag-anne-soy","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-black","tag-blm","tag-britain","tag-british","tag-clive-myrie","tag-colonial","tag-colonialism","tag-correspondent","tag-debate","tag-distribution","tag-elites","tag-empire","tag-history","tag-imperial","tag-imperialism","tag-independence","tag-inequality","tag-kenya","tag-land","tag-lives","tag-matter","tag-nation","tag-national","tag-news","tag-ownership","tag-past","tag-protists","tag-statues","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}