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Mau Mau
Mau Mau , secret insurgent organization in Kenya , comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople. They were bound by oath to force the expulsion of white settlers from Kenya. In 1952 the Mau Mau began reprisals against the Europeans, especially in the "white highlands," claimed as Kikuyu lands. The set... Read more
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya or Mount Kirinyaga, extinct volcano, central Kenya, just south of the equator. Its highest peak, Batian, reaches 17,058 ft (5,199 m), making Mt. Kenya the highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro. In the heart of Kikuyu country, Mt. Kenya was a focal point during the Mau Mau d... Read more
Kikuyu
Kikuyu , Bantu-speaking people, numbering about 6 million, forming the largest tribal group in Kenya. The Kikuyu live in the highlands NE of Nairobi. Before the British conquest they were the most influential people in the country. During the 1950s, under the leadership of Jomo Kenyatta , the Kikuy... Read more
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey , 1903-72, British archaeologist and anthropologist of E Africa, b. Kabete, Kenya; father of Richard Leakey . His fossil discoveries in E Africa demonstrated that humans were far older than had previously been suspected. Leakey, the son of missionary parents, grew up amo... Read more
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.), 1931-, American journalist and novelist, b. Richmond, Va. Wolfe first gained fame for his studies of contemporary American culture in a style known as New Journalism, which combined personal impressions and opinions, reconstructed dialogue, slang, and academi... Read more
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta , 1893?-1978, African political leader, first president of Kenya (1964-78). A Kikuyu, he was one of the earliest and best-known African nationalist leaders. As secretary of his tribal association (1928), he campaigned for land reform and African political rights. In England he collabor... Read more
Nairobi
Nairobi , city (1996 pop. 3,000,000), capital of Kenya, S Kenya, in the E African highlands. Nairobi is Kenya's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center. It is the trade and distribution center for a productive agricultural area specializing in coffee, tea, and cattle... Read more
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o or James Ngugi, 1938-, Kenyan writer, acclaimed as East Africa's foremost novelist. He studied at universities in Uganda and England. His first novel, Weep Not, Child (1964) and his second, A Grain of Wheat (1967), are accounts of the Mau Mau rebellion. Ngugi is particul... Read more
Cochin China
Cochin China , Fr. Cochinchine, historic region (c.26,500 sq mi/68,600 sq km) of Vietnam, SE Asia. The capital and chief city was Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City ). Cochin China was bounded by Cambodia on the northwest and north, by the historic region of Annam on the northeast, by the South China... Read more
Samoa
Samoa formerly Western Samoa, officially Independent State of Samoa, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 177,000), South Pacific, comprising the western half of the Samoa island chain. There are nine major islands: Upolu , Savai'i , Apolima, Manono, Fanuatapu, Namua, Nuutele, Nuula, and... Read more

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Mau Mau
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Mau Mau The Mau Mau movement of Kenya was a nationalist armed peasant revolt against the British colonial state, its policies, and its local supporters. The overwhelming majority of the Mau Mau fighters and of their supporters, who formed the...
The Mau-Mau
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained The Mau-Mau It has been said that no one knows the real meaning of "Mau-Mau" other than a Kikuyu (also Gikuyu) tribesperson and that is because its name, like its origins, is shrouded in ancient African tribal mysteries and covered in...
Mau Mau rebellion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Mau Mau rebellion. The violent, grass-roots resistance movement launched by the Kikuyu and related ethnic groups against the British colonial government in Kenya in the 1950s. It had its origins in the sense of deprivation felt by the Kikuyu...
Kimathi, Dedan
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...of Kenya ’ s militant nationalist group, the Mau Mau. He became notorious as the elusive “ general...embraced radical politics when he subscribed to the oath of the Mau Mau, the group demanding freedom and the return of Kenyan...
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...school and then at a Gikuyu independent school during the Mau Mau insurgency, he went on to attend Alliance High School in...his childhood, focussed on the traumatic effects of the Mau Mau uprising on Gikuyu family life and on the impact of...
Kenyatta, Jomo
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...1952, Kenyatta was arrested by the British government and charged with being a manager and member of the society of Mau Mau. The Mau Mau revolution was a lengthy battle of the Kikuyu people against British control. Kenyatta denied any participation...
Thomas Joseph Mboya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...European-dominated society of Kenya had been struck by the Mau Mau resistance movement in 1952, and Mboya, already much impressed...African leaders not to be detained during the years of the Mau Mau. Mboya joined Kenyatta's party, the Kenya Africa...
Kibaki, Mwai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...brothers had died in a guerilla uprising, known as the Mau Mau emergency, which was part of that struggle. Kibaki returned...the fight for independence, taking the secret oath of the Mau Mau guerillas, though not fighting like his brother. He...
Kalenjin
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...movement and sponsored the Kalenjin monthly magazine out of a desire to foster anti-Gikuyu sentiments during the Mau Mau emergency. The Mau Mau movement was a mostly Gikuyu-led revolt against British colonialism that provoked an official state of...
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...with W. E. Owen); Tentative Study of the Pleistocene Sequence and Stone Age Cultures of N. E. Angola; Mau Mau and Kikuyu; Defeating Mau Mau; The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa (with Le Gros Clark); The Pleistocene Fossil Suidae of East...

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Mau Mau
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Mau Mau (1952–9) A militant guerrilla movement which had begun to develop...casualties by 1957 were ninety-five Europeans and 1,920 Africans killed by Mau Mau guerrillas, and 11,503 Kikuyu people killed by the colonial forces...
Mau Mau rebellion
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Mau Mau rebellion The violent, grass‐roots resistance movement launched by the Kikuyu against the British colonial government in Kenya in the 1950s. It had its origins in the sense of deprivation felt by the Kikuyu, who had lost much of their land to white settlers.
MAU
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military MAU abbr. Marine Amphibious Unit.
Kenya, Christianity in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...mission churches and schools and started their own free of missionary control. In the Mau Mau uprising of 1952 some Christians refused to take the secret Mau Mau oath and were killed; they are commemorated in the Anglican cathedral at Murang...
Bogarde, (Sir) Dirk
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Howard) 1955 The Sea Shall Not Have Them (Lewis Gilbert) (as Flight Sgt. Mackay); Simba (Simba—Mark of Mau Mau ) (Hurst) (as Alan Howard); Doctor at Sea (Thomas) (as Dr. Simon Sparrow); Cast a Dark Shadow (Lewis Gilbert...
Kenya
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...nationalism developed steadily, led by Jomo KENYATTA . From this tension grew the Kenya Africa Union, and the militant MAU MAU movement (1952–57). An election in 1961 led to the two African political parties, the Kenya African National...
Kenyatta, Jomo
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...was elected president of the Kenya African Union in 1947. In 1952 he was found guilty of master‐minding the Mau Mau rebellion although the evidence was far from conclusive. He was released in 1961 and became prime minister in 1963 when...
Rage Against the Machine
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...muralist Beto. The band gelled when de la Rocha met the guitarist Tom Morello, whose father had served as a member of the Mau Mau guerrilla organization that had freed Kenya from colonial rule in the 1960s. Morello's mother, Mary, was a schoolteacher...
Amin, Idi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...He took part in the British campaigns to prevent the independence of Burma and then of Kenya, where he helped crush the Mau Mau rebellion. Despite early signs of his brutality, he rose quickly to become commander of the Ugandan army in 1966. At...
Tanzania
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...independence. Independence was achieved on 9 December 1961 with relatively few complications, compared for example, to Kenya ( Mau Mau ) or Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). In 1964 it was united with Zanzibar under the name of Tanzania, though the two parts retained...

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Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory and Politics
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Clough, S. Marshall. Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory and Politics. Boulder, CO and London...pp. As we winddown the twentieth century, issues pertaining to the Mau Mau armed struggle that occurred in colonial Kenya between 1952 and...
Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. By S.M. Shamsul Alam. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan...in this book concerns what he considers to be the unfinished business of Mau Mau scholarship. To his way of thinking, the Mau Mau Rebellion in colonial...
Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration. Edited by E.S. Atieno...paper. After more than half a century, the academic and political interest in Mau Mau shows no sign of slackening. The book reviewed here was conceived to coincide...
Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory, and Politics.(Review)
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Marshall S. Clough, Mau Mau Memoirs: History, Memory, and Politics. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner...intimidating their Kenyan collaborators. This episode, known as the Mau Mau insurgency, was characterized by the British "primitive...
Mau Mau: an African Crucible.
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/19/1990; ; 700+ words ; Mau Mau: An African Crucible, by Robert B. Edgerton (Free Press, 304 pp., $22.95) WHEN THE Mau Mau rebellion made news in the mid-1950s, it was because of the barbarity...
Mau Mau - 30 years later. (aftermath of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya)
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 5/1/1985; ; 700+ words ; MAU MAU-30 YEARS LATER The Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya that lasted from 1952 until 1960 is virtually unknown in Britain today. This is not an accident. The rebellion was a serious challenge to the position of British imperialism, not only in...
Mau Mau: Ever-present past
Magazine article from: New African; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; To understand the implications of the Mau Mau lawsuit against the British government, we have to look at Africa...Kenya following the December 2007 elections, survivors of the Mau Mau war for independence have finally filed a lawsuit against...
Mau Mau Memoirs: history, memory and politics. (Reviews Of Books).
Magazine article from: Africa; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; MARSHALL S. CLOUGH, Mau Mau Memoirs: history, memory and politics. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner...pounds sterling], ISBN 1 55587 537 8. Since Independence a trickle of Mau Mau memoirs has appeared in press. Clough has selected thirteen for...
THE MAU MAU REBELLION
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/31/1989; ; 700+ words ; MAU MAU An African Crucible By Robert B. Edgerton The Free Press. 298 pp. $22.95 THE MAU MAU rebellion in Kenya has fascinated scholars and the public for nearly four...
MAU MAU VETERANS SEEK REWARDS FROM KENYA.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/22/2000; 700+ words ; ...typical of the aging, impoverished veterans of the ``Mau Mau,'' a poorly equipped peasant movement that waged a rebellion...independence for the East African nation in 1963. The term Mau Mau, which has no known meaning, first surfaced in 1948...