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)...
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up mau-mau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mau Mau may refer to: The Kenya Land and Freedom Army, an anti-colonial force The Mau Mau rebellion, Kenya...
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British military operation during the Mau Mau Uprising where British troops attempted to remove suspected Mau Mau from Nairobi and place them in Langata...
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Kenya Land and Freedom Army (section Mau Mau uprising)
known as the Mau Mau, was a Kenyan Independence Movement which fought against British colonial rule in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion from 1952 to...
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Caroline Elkins (section Mau Mau Rebellion)
General Nonfiction. It was also the basis for successful claims by former Mau Mau detainees against the British government for crimes committed in the internment...
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at that time. The Mau Mau rebellion, that was a revolt against British colonial rule in Kenya, lasted from 1952 to 1960. The rebellion was marked by war...
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Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (category British people of the Mau Mau Uprising)
to 1959. Baring played an integral role in the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion. Together with Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, Baring played...
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Kenya African Union (section KAU and the Mau Mau)
to deal with the situation that had fomented the outbreak of the Mau Mau rebellion in the first place. Some of the recommendations of the KAU were implemented...
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rights abuses in British detention facilities in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. Elkins says that she started writing Legacy of Violence to answer...
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Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton (category British people of the Mau Mau Uprising)
independence to Cyprus, Ghana, Malaya and Sudan. He was in office during the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, and was persuaded to stay in office by Harold Macmillan...
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Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega – whose lives are intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion. In order to escape city life, each retreats to the small, pastoral...
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Hola massacre (category Mau Mau Uprising)
massacre was a massacre committed by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau Uprising at a colonial detention camp in Hola, Kenya. Hola camp was established...
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July 22, 1998 The Infamous Mau Mau Mau Mau Underground Mau Mau Art on Flickr Mau Mau Artists Street Assembly Gallery Mau Mau: Tom Schwarer Exhibit A Artist...
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Stanley Mathenge (category People of the Mau Mau Uprising)
military leader during the Mau Mau rebellion. He was born in Mahiga, Nyeri District.[citation needed] Before the Mau Mau rebellion, he had fought in Burma...
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State of Emergency in the Mau Mau Rebellion. British troops suspended African political leaders and rounded up suspected Mau Mau leaders. "Emergency In Kenya:...
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II, for instance in relation to British camps in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), and camps set up in Chile during the military dictatorship...
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world wars and other conflicts, such as the Malayan Emergency and the Mau Mau uprising. The regiment's enlisted soldiers were drawn from the native Africans...
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Dedan Kimathi (category People of the Mau Mau Uprising)
18 February 1957) was the senior military and spiritual leader of the Mau Mau Uprising. Widely regarded as a revolutionary leader, he led the armed military...
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participation in the Mau Mau Rebellion. In various colonial records, Kikuyu women have frequently been portrayed as victims of the Mau Mau rebellion, a portrayal...
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Powellism (section Mau Mau Rebellion)
campaigned against the brutality of British troops in combating the Mau Mau rebellion. He called for British troops guilty of atrocities to be punished...
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Chuka massacre (category Mau Mau Uprising)
Mau Mau uprising. The 5th KAR B Company had been sent to the Chuka area on 13 June 1953, to flush out rebels of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (Mau Mau)...
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Lari massacre (category Mau Mau Uprising)
The Lari massacre was an incident during the Mau Mau Uprising in which the Mau Mau massacred approximately 74 people, including some members of the loyalist...
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administration. Among other things it provided intelligence during the Mau Mau rebellion. The Nandi, on hearing of the British, sought to attack them. On the...
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the Mau Mau rebellion in 1952. On 17 August 1952, a state of emergency was declared, and British troops were flown to Kenya to deal with the rebellion. As...
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commendation to the chapters on the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Mau Mau rebellion. "Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali". Verso Books...
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George Erskine (category British people of the Mau Mau Uprising)
operations against the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) during the Mau Mau rebellion. Erskine was the son of Major General George Elphinstone Erskine by...
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Lodge upon their return from Treetops Hotel. The beginning of the Mau Mau Rebellion had made Kenya less secure and Ian Henderson, of Kenya Police Force...
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for her family. This was her first introduction to the Mau Mau movement. The Mau Mau Rebellion took years of previously established injustice and frustration...
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the whole miserable episode of what is frequently spoken of as 'the Mau Mau rebellion' need never have taken place. — By the Evidence, Chapter 18 While...
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Forty Group (category Mau Mau Uprising)
into part of the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s. Stanley Mathenge was one of the leaders of the Forty Group. Marshall S. Clough: Mau Mau memoirs: history...
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