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Mau Mau
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Mau Mau an African secret society originating among the Kikuyu that in the 1950s used violence and terror to try to expel European settlers and end British rule in Kenya. The British eventually subdued the organization, but Kenya gained independence in 1963. The term is Kikuyu, and is probably an application of
mau-mau used to describe voracious devouring.
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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...their Kenyan collaborators. This episode, known as the Mau Mau insurgency, was characterized by the British "primitive...
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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...ISBN 1 55587 537 8. Since Independence a trickle of Mau Mau memoirs has appeared in press. Clough has selected thirteen...
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DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES ON MAU MAU
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES ON MAU MAU Caroline Elkins. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of...95. Cloth. David Lovatt Smith. Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau. Eastbourne: Anthony Rowe Ltd., 2005. 358 pp. Map...
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Kenyan Mau Maus in UK court bid.
News Wire article from: Aljazeera.net; 6/23/2009; 700+ words
; ...Gitu wa Kahengeri, spokesman for the 7,000-member Mau Mau War Veterans Association, said: What we are doing is for...forced into camps by the British during what was known as the Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule. The UK has indicated...
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Mau Mau revisited.(Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya)(Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War and the End of the Empire)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...remembered episode in recent British and African history, the Mau Man uprising in Kenya during the 1950s. This anticolonial...real and imagined, but this did not happen in Kenya. The Mau Mau revolt is thus an exception to the rule of anti-colonial...
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Acero-Martin Retains Mau Capital Management LLC for Investor Relations.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 4/26/2006; 700+ words
; ...pleased to announce that it has retained the services of Mau Capital Management LLC ("Mau") to provide investor relations services for the Company. Mr. John Lee is the principal of Mau. Mau will provide in depth research report of the...
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Acero-Martin Retains Mau Capital Management LLC for Investor Relations
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 4/26/2006; 581 words
; ...pleased to announce that it has retained the services of Mau Capital Management LLC ("Mau") to provide investor relations services for the Company. Mr. John Lee is the principal of Mau. Mau will provide in depth research report of the...
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Britain sued for millions by Mau Mau terrorists Ex-servicemen angered as vicious fighters seek compensation
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; THE FAMILIES of soldiers who fought the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya reacted with fury last night to news that...being taken captive. British lawyers representing former Mau Mau fighters claim that they were tortured by the colonial...
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Tony Parsons Column: Mau they want our cash.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 11/11/2002; 287 words
; Byline: Tony Parsons MEMBERS of the Mau Mau, the Kenyan terrorist organisation whose name became synonymous...millions of pounds in compensation from the British government. Mau Mau veterans, who were notorious in colonial Kenya for butchering...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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MAU
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
MAU abbr. Marine Amphibious Unit.
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Kimathi, Dedan
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...member 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...
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