Mau Mau Uprising: Your Stories

As four elderly Kenyans are given the go-ahead to take legal action against the British government over their treatment during the Mau Mau uprising, BBC News website readers explain how the uprising affected their lives.

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  • Acts of defiance: Kenya’s Mau Mau freedom fighters are still pursuing justice
    The relationships with Mau Mau veterans grew stronger ... Omitted from the official narrative is the Empire’s brutal response to the uprising that eventually forced them to leave.
    11/29/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
  • King Charles Kenya trip: Mau Mau uprising hangs over visit
    King Charles and his wife Camilla are on a four-day state visit to Kenya, where he will acknowledge "painful aspects" of the UK's colonial past. More than 10,000 people were killed and others ...
    02/11/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
  • Tetu, the sleepy sub-county rich in Mau Mau history but lacks banks, colleges
    Nyeri town, however, was carved out of Tetu and was one of the strongholds of the Mau Mau resistance. But long before it was the home of Mau Mau freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi, it was first the ...
    07/18/2020 - 10:07 am | View Link
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  • Mau Mau uprising: Bloody history of Kenya conflict
    Legal action taken against the British government to secure compensation for four Kenyans allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau uprising will cast the spotlight on one of the Empire's bloodiest...
    12/26/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Website
  • Mau Mau | Kenya, Colonialism, Rebellion | Britannica
    Mau Mau, militant African nationalist movement that originated in the 1950s among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. The Mau Mau (origin of the name is uncertain) advocated violent resistance to British domination in Kenya; the movement was especially associated with the ritual oaths employed by leaders
    12/25/2024 - 3:03 pm | View Website
  • Mau Mau rebellion
    The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities. [9]
    12/24/2024 - 7:14 pm | View Website
  • What Was The Mau Mau Uprising? | Imperial War Museums
    What Was The Mau Mau Uprising? Britain invaded Eastern Africa in multiple stages in the last years of the nineteenth-century. They conquered many different peoples and destroyed traditional societies which had existed for centuries.
    12/24/2024 - 6:03 pm | View Website
  • Mau Mau Rebellion: History, Major Causes & Effects
    Here is everything that you need to know about the Mau Mau Rebellion, which resulted in a brutal crackdown by British colonial troops in Kenya.
    12/23/2024 - 11:12 pm | View Website
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