caroline elkins is professor of african and african-american history at harvard university. her most recent book is titled "legacy of violence: a history of the british empire." she was awarded the 2006 pulitzer prize for her first book "imperial reckoning: the untold story of britain's gulag in kenya." her research into britain's brutal suppression of the mau mau movement in the 1950's resulted in a court case that helped lead to reparations have more than 5200 surviving kenyans who were subjected to systematic torture and abuse under british rule. also with us, mukoma wa ngugi is associate professor of "literatures in english" at cornell university. his most recent book is titled "unbury our dead with song." he is the co-founder of the safal-cornell kiswahili prize for african writing. in 2020, he was part of the initiative at cornell to change the department's name from "department of english" to "literatures in english." he is the son of world-renowned kenyan author ngugi wa thiong'o. after queen elizabeth died. our guest wrote -- "my uncle was deaf. he was asked by brit