Template:Did you know nominations/Squatting in Kenya
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 22:00, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
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Squatting in Kenya
- ... that Kenyan labourers who worked for white British settlers while being given areas to live in were called squatters? Source: http://filestore.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pdfs/small/cab-24-173-CP-252.pdf. Pages 172-173
- ALT1: ... that squatters were one of the groups that started the Mau Mau rebellion? Source: Kanogo, Tabitha M. (1987). Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63. London: J. Currey. ISBN 978-1-78204-979-1. Pages 136-137 , https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022009415616867
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Improved to Good Article status by Mujinga (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 01:05, 25 November 2022 (UTC).
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Word count fine, recency fine, supported hooks, well-sourced, no sign of copyvio, QPQ done. I find the first book dull compared to the second (quite interesting) so this is hereby approved as good to go for ALT1. there’s nothing *wrong with the first hook but the second is more compelling.
jengod (talk) 06:21, 27 November 2022 (UTC)