The Kitchen Toto

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Wangui Monicah W A film that has misrepresented the Kenyan fight for freedom against British Colonialism. The MAU MAU are the reason why Kenyans have freedom today. And here, we see a British film-maker trying to misrepresent what they did, and the sacrifices they made (which is literally their lives) so that they can make money from a story that is not theirs. The MAU MAU, selfless soldiers, sacrificed their lives for the independence of all Kenyans, which they ended up achieving. What you see here, is a British man who misses the colonial world, and tries to portray the Africans as bad people, so that he can justify slavery. The British colonizers were not good people; they killed, raped, stole and did every horrible imaginable thing they could possibly do to the African people. This, the British film-maker is aware of, but he has conveniently not included it in his film because he is interested in deception; nostalgic of a world of slavery. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/26/25 Full Review Laurie S I married a Kenyan, a Luo, whose late husband was a Kikuyu, the biggest and most corrupt tribe who formed the Mau Mau movement. Every election year the Kikuyu cheat on the vote count to remain in power, hence 'the troubles when the Luos had an uprising and Kofi Annan, ashamed at the UN messing up the Rwanda civil war wanted to make amends and bring about peace. Luckily his intervention succeeded and the Kenyan civil war ended without further bloodshed. Coincidentally, our last born is also called Mwangi. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/15/24 Full Review Audience Member Directed and written by Harry Hook, who also made the 1990 Lord of the Flies, The Kitchen Toto is about Jonathan Graham, a regional police officer in the British colony of Kenya dealing with the uprising of the Kikuyu tribe. When they kill a black priest who's condemned them, he takes in the man's young son Mwangi (Edwin Mahinda) as his houseboy. Or kitchen toto, which is where this gets its name from. Mwangi is trapped between two worlds, the independence his country needs so badly and the British who have treated him so well. Well, except for John's son Edward, who uses him for target practice with his air rifle. When the Kikuyu tribe tries to recruit the servants to push out the English rulers, our protagonist has a life choice to make. Look, not every Cannon movie is ninjas and explosions. Sometimes, they're stiff upper lip explorations of the United Kingdom's past. But yes, they really should all be ninjas and explosions. This was the last film of Edward Judd, who was in The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Because of the Cats and The Vault of Horror. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member It's not a failure, it's just not enough. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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