Relations and Inbetween... the Third Image, Peter Beard
From Peter Beard's 'End of the Game'.
There's some pretty hard hitting connections with the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya during the 1950's early 60's. in this spread of Beard's book. In the far mid right is a portrait of Dedan Kimathi who 'lead' the Mau Mau in the mountainous Aberdare forest and was finally captured and executed. The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta (pictured to the left of carcass), conducted by the British, implicated Kenyatta as the political motivation behind what were brutal tactics of the Mau Mau. Presumably the dead Zebra covered with flies is something of a symbol representing the horror of this period in Kenya's history? Is it a criticism of Kenyatta. Note Karen Blixens (Isaac Dinesen) profile beside that of Tutankhamen and a tribeman, the old East African coin, the elephant, Ahmed, on the left had tusks so big, I've heard it said, that it had to walk up a hill backwards! An xray of the bullet that ended Ahmed's life is at the bottom left.
