Social Dynamics' Journal of African Studies, University of Cape Town

“...an accomplishment in the use of the archive to construct a biography. Patel relies on thousands of archival records in Kenya and India from the precolonial to contemporary times...”

“...[offers] an alternative viewpoint on the identity of postcolonial Kenya...”

“...it destabilises the foundations on which modern Kenya’s historiography is constructed by raising questions about the place of both race and trade union activism in the country.”