Well the British won the war but lost the peace. They defeated Mau Mau but in the process their reputation in Kenya was so tarnished that they left in four years. Independence came in 1963.

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting ...

The number killed in the uprising is a subject of much controversy. Officially the number of Mau Mau and other rebels killed was 11,000, including 1,090 convicts hanged by the British administration.

Looking back to the start of my research, in the summer of 1995, I had no idea that nearly 10 years later I would write a book about wide-scale destruction in colonial Kenya and Britain’s ...

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The truth is the Mau Mau was a mass movement that was organised to liberate Kenya from colonial domination,” says Gitu wa Kahengeri, the secretary-general of the Mau Mau War Veterans’ Association.

Nearly 50 years ago amidst Kenya’s struggle for independence, a group known as Mau Mau launched a guerrilla war against colonial authorities. Hundreds of thousands of Mau Mau, ...

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