HOW KENYA TEACHERS COLLEGE, GITHUNGURI, CAME TO BE SEEN AS A BREEDING GROUND FOR ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE By the early 1950s, the college was viewed by the colonial regime as a breeding ground for anti-colonial resistance. According to Prof. Caroline Elkins of Harvard, the author of the British Gulag, the colonial government accused KTC of harboring Mau Mau sympathizers.The British administration, sensing the spirit of radicalism growing out of Githunguri, moved to crush it. After declaring a St