ABSTRACT
This text began in New Zealand in the 1970s with one of the authors listening to first year Legal System lectures on (English) legal history from a figure wearing black academic gown who had been a public prosecutor in Kenya and whom, it was rumoured, laid claim to have hung a considerable number of the Mau Mau. The ‘I’ voice of that first chapter is white (as are the other two co-authors), a Pakeha, as the Maori would call the white settlers – predominantly from Europe – who came (with superior technology; i.e. guns) to the lands they occupied.
