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	Mau Mau Uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960.
		Senior British officers thought that the Mau Mau Uprising was a sideshow compared to the Malayan Emergency.
		The last Mau Mau leader, Dedan Kimathi, was captured by Kikuyu pseudo-gang police on 21 October 1956 in Nyeri with 13 remaining guerrillas, and was subsequently hanged in early 1957.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mau_Mau (4069 words)

	Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An interesting feat to "rebellion" is that it has been taken in as fashion interest in America, and rebellious behaviors are usually turned into more of a new fashion statement than a statement of intellect.
		For example, the Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century, and the Jacobite Risings which attempted to restore the deposed Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland were called the Jacobite Rebellions by the government.
		A violent rebellion is sometimes referred to as an insurgency while a larger one may escalate into a civil war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rebellion (474 words)

	Facts about mau mau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mau Mau Uprising or Rebellion was a guerilla war between African Mau Mau rebels and British and Kenyan forces in Kenya.
		Mau Mau (kikuyu for “burning spear”) was a semi-clandestine insurgent organization in Kenya.
		Mau Mau hid in bamboo forests of the Aberdare and Mount Kenya.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/mau_mau.html (1660 words)

	Mau Mau Movement
		Mau Mau is viewed as being a return to paganism, since among the Kikuyu Christianity and missionaries are inevitably associated with imperialism according to the author.
		The Mau Mau movement was the result of a “breakdown of the uneasy alliance with the moderate wing of the KCA” and the “loose network of militant activists” that became Mau Mau (Furedi, 109).
		Kinyatti is one of the “main exponents of the thesis that Mau Mau was an anti-imperialist nationalist movment” (Furedi, 142).
	www.thefreemans.org /Jon/africa.htm (3863 words)

	Kenyan Mau Mau seek compensation from British government
		The Mau Mau movement began in 1946-47 and precipitated possibly the gravest crisis in the history of Britain's African colonies.
		The Mau Mau was a rebellion of landless peasants and low-paid labourers in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
		Joseph Ndecha, the Mau Mau chairman, told Kenyan television that the association had spent 15 years gathering evidence on behalf of the 87,000 Kenyans detained and the thousands more transferred to concentration camps and deprived of their land and property by the British.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/mau-m26_prn.shtml (1507 words)

	kenya-mail.com's Kenya Safari Guide - Mau Mau - The Mau Mau movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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 of the Kikuyu Central Association to promote unity in the independence movement.
		The “dangerous explosion” among the Kikuyu that he had predicted in 1930 erupted as the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952, which was directed against the presence of European settlers in Kenya and their ownership of land.
		Jomo Kenyatta, charged with directing the Mau Mau movement and sentenced with five associates to seven years' imprisonment in 1953, was released in 1959 and confined to restrictive residence.
	www.kenya-mail.com /mau_mau.html (2177 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Mau Mau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		MAU MAU [Mau Mau], secret insurgent organization in Kenya, comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople.
		In 1952 the Mau Mau began reprisals against the Europeans, especially in the "white highlands," claimed as Kikuyu lands.
		One of the worst trouble-spots for Mau Mau, and many "sweeps" of the town were held to find the Mau Mau terrorists.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MauM1au.asp (322 words)

	Royal African Society - Histories of the Hanged: Reparations, Reconciliation & the Mau Mau War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mau Mau is most often described as a race war but in fact only 32 European settlers were killed.
		That Mau Mau was often described as a disease highlights this dynamic of violence.
		Mau Mau was glossed over, we read Kenyatta and never appreciated the scale of horror so I must thank you for this book.
	www.royalafricansociety.org /reports_publications/recent_meetings/histories_maumau (2441 words)

	Untitled Document
		Mau Mau is a name given to a movement in the 1940s and 50s in Kenya.
		The Mau Mau didn’t like the fact that the government of Kenya kept natives from having certain rights.
		The man who the government originally charged with leading the Mau Mau guerillas, Jomo Kenyatta, eventually became the first prime minister of Kenya’s first independent government in 1964.
	www.forgirlsandtheirdreams.org /maumau.htm (355 words)

	Mau-Mau Uprising PSYOPS
		When one thinks of the Mau Mau uprising, the images are of African natives slitting the throats of white settlers and farmers in their sleep, and of Jomo Kenyatta, the famous Burning Spear who later became the first President of Kenya.
		Mau Mau followers were forbidden to invite non-members to drink beer, or to attend their dances; they were not to help them in building huts or in any other tasks where it was normal for a man to call on his neighbors to give communal aid.
		Worse for the Mau Mau leaders, as the members left the organization and did not suffer a painful and agonizing death, it became clear that the oath had no magical power and was just a myth.
	www.psywar.org /maumau.php (5852 words)

	Early Days of the Mau Mau Insurrection
		The Mau Mau Insurrection is interesting for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it serves (like the Salem, MA witch trials and later American Communist hunts) as an excellent example of mass hysteria.
		I will be talking about the economic aspect of the Mau Mau movement in Kenya from the point of view of the Mau Mau during the early stages of the Mau Mau Insurrection.
		The Mau Mau survived as a secret society and as a fighting force because they were able to get supplies from a few different sources.
	www.ccs.neu.edu /home/feneric/maumau.html (802 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Monuments for the Mau Mau
		Mau Mau veterans have complained for years that their role in the independence struggle was never fully recognised, but the move is being criticised by some as a political ploy by the government anxious to win support ahead of elections next year.
		The struggle of the Mau Mau against the British colonists in Kenya brought independence in 1963.
		Many had lost their land and as the country moved forward under its new political leaders, the Mau Mau felt they were quickly forgotten.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1236807.stm (421 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mau Mau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mau Mau MAU MAU [Mau Mau], secret insurgent organization in Kenya, comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople.
		His first novel, Weep Not, Child (1964) and his second, A Grain of Wheat (1967), are accounts of the Mau Mau rebellion.
		(aftermath of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya)
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/08213.html (686 words)

	jomokenyattaaug1961 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He was sentenced in 1952 to prison by the British, who had accused him of leading the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya.
		The Mau Mau rebellion was part of the struggle for Kenyan national independence.
		The Mau Mau rebellion had no real leaders, for all the past leaders had been arrested or sent out of the country by the European colonists.
	www.gfsnet.org /msweb/sixties/jomokenyattaaug1961.htm (314 words)

	Ngugi Study Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Mau Mau revolt, as the novel suggests, was anti-colonial in inspiration yet assumed the characteristics of a civil war among various social strata of Africans.
		Mau Mau rebels swore secret oaths of loyalty to their comrades in arms and escaped into the forests, from where they waged war on white planters and their African associates.
		The era of the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya is also known as “the Emergency.” The Emergency was one of the largest anti-colonial revolts ever in Africa.
	jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu /~plarson/syllabi/122/question/ngugi.htm (492 words)

	H-Net Review: James Ellison on Mau Mau from Below
		A generation of Mau Mau research has taken Marc Bloch's suggestion about cataclysms [1] and tried to understand a society--Kikuyu under colonialism in particular--and then used that understanding to re-examine the event and its larger implications.
		Later scholars began to pull apart "the Mau Mau movement," examining the roles of people with different access to land, the economic and social impacts of land alienation, and later the specific involvement of women.
		A valuable way to study Mau Mau, or any rebellion or period of resistance, is to separate out the various categories of actors and to determine how they confront changing pressures and obligations through time.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12742877821826 (2213 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Kenya lifts ban on Mau Mau
		Mau Mau - or the Land and Freedom Army, as they called themselves - have waited a very long time to receive recognition.
		This is because the Mau Mau rebellion was, at least in part, a civil war.
		Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta, was a strong nationalist, but he was not a member of Mau Mau, despite being convicted of belonging to the movement in what historians regard as a rigged, show trial.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3196245.stm (350 words)

	LRB \| Bernard Porter : How did they get away with it? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This had partly to do with the nature of the Mau Mau phenomenon, misunderstood at the time by those who refused to acknowledge the Kikuyus’ huge grievance about the land expropriated from them, which both these authors agree was at the root of the revolt.
		Mau Mau was described instead in terms of a disease (even by Kenyatta), or seen as an example of a peculiarly African, ‘primitive’ psychopathology.
		Mau Mau violence, as he points out, was more often directed against other Kikuyu – ‘traitors’ – than against the British authorities or the Kenyan settlers.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n05/port01_.html (3635 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Honour for Mau Mau leader who ate victims
		The body of the notorious leader of Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion against British rule in the 1950s will be exhumed from a prison grave and given a state funeral 46 years after he was hanged for treason.
		World opinion was galvanised against the Mau Mau after a doctor who ran a clinic for Africans, her husband and their six-year-old son were hacked to death.
		Thirty-two settlers and about 100 British soldiers were killed by the Mau Mau, but many of Kimathi's most brutal attacks were aimed at members of the Kikuyu tribe who remained loyal to the colonial administration.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/13/wmau13.xml (683 words)

	mau-mau - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mau Mau Rebellion, uprising against British rule in Kenya that began in 1952 after a long buildup of resentment caused primarily by appropriation...
		Egyptian Mau, only domestic breed of spotted cat that developed naturally rather than through a selective process by cat breeders.
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	encarta.msn.com /mau-mau.html (133 words)

	Mau Mau rebels: A growing threat in Kenya...again?
		Kenyans who fought in the Mau Mau rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s say they are preparing to take the British Government to court for alleged human rights abuses.
		Now a welfare group with more than half-a-million members, the Mau Mau Trust, claims many veterans were tortured and illegally detained by the British.
		The Mau Mau Trust claims that many of its fighters were regularly beaten and tortured by British forces throughout their fight for independence.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/921364/posts (827 words)

	Mau Mau Women - African Culture
		While the Mau Mau fighters rested in a home of a sympathizer, they were generally working on a plot to attack the British.
		The women who belonged to the Mau Mau were strong and continued to work for the freedom of Kenya no matter what the odds were against them.
		Although the Mau Mau movement was crushed a few years before independence, these women accomplished a lot for the freedom of Kenya.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24891.asp (436 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		Over the years, the Mau Mau have been famously called the ‘’yell from the swamp’’ (by the white settler Elspeth Huxley), and held up as the embodiment of ‘’a basic impulsive savagery that is greater than anything we civilised people have encountered in two centuries’’ (according to the still widely-read U.S. writer Robert Ruark).
		On the other side of the ledger, 150,000 suspected Mau Mau sympathisers were forced into abysmal labour camps, most without trial; up to 20,000 rebels were killed in combat; and more than a thousand were executed.
		Wrongly accused of being a Mau Mau ringleader, Kenyatta was condemned to seven years of prison and hard labour.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=27560 (1021 words)

	Amazon.com: Mau Mau: An African Crucible: Books: Robert B. Edgerton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Portrayed in Western media as a terroristic outbreak of indiscriminate maimings and killings, the Kikuyu rebellion against British settlers in Kenya in 1952-56 is skillfully described and analyzed by a UCLA anthropologist-psychiatrist who has interviewed many participants.
		Mau Mau, the rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s, has been extensively documented.
		Edgerton concludes that the primary cause of Mau Mau was the actions of the white settler community and that the excesses of the settlers went far beyond those of the Mau Mau.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0029089204?v=glance (561 words)

	Kenya Safari Guide --> Background - History - Mau Mau uprising (Mau Mau) and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In October 1952 the colonial government declared a state of emergency and arrested Kenyatta, charging him with managing Mau Mau.
		Kenyatta’s arrest and later conviction and imprisonment, and the banning of KAU in 1953, spurred on the Mau Mau rebellion (Mau Mau uprising), in which thousands of Africans—the majority of whom were Kikuyu—fought a guerrilla war against colonial rule and settler supremacy.
		The Mau Mau rebellion proved also to be a Kikuyu civil war: Those who fought against British rule were drawn from the poorest segment of Kikuyu society, while wealthier Kikuyu, who had profited from colonial rule, fought against the Mau Mau rebels.
	www.kenya-mail.com /Safari/history.html (2711 words)

	Mau Mau, Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Counterinsurgency in Kenya: a study of military operations against the Mau Mau, 1952-1960.
		Storm over Africa: a study of the Mau Mau rebellion, its causes, effects, and implications in Africa south of the Sahara.
		MALOBA, Wunyabari O. Mau Mau and Kenya: an analysis of a peasant revolt.
	users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/kenya_maumau.htm (442 words)

	EDITORIAL: “MAU MAU MUSIC”
		Politics, for them, often means voting in Babylon and middle-class social “values.” Like others, they see no resistance, rebellion and revolution to be had in matters of sex or eroticism, creative arts, spirit, styles of dress, speech or language as well as guerilla struggle in arms, especially when had among the masses.
		The on-screen rap crew known as “The Mau Mau’s” should be part of the solution here if “white-supremacy,” not the Black masses, were seen as the real culprit.
		Mau Mau music in Malcolm as opposed to Bamboozled must bust lyrical guns against status-quo politics, and white middle-class “morals and manners.” It is high time we see and hear how the well-mannered moralism of this status-quo is political indeed; it is politics itself.
	www.africaresource.com /proudflesh/issue3/thomas.htm (1581 words)

	TIME: 80 Days That Changed the World, Oct. 20, 1952: Mau Mau Rebellion
		The gunmen were Mau Mau rebels, members of a secret society who had vowed to drive the white man from the British colony of Kenya.
		Already accused of a series of arson and cattle-killing incidents, the Mau Mau's dramatic daylight assassination of a prominent British loyalist from their own tribe stunned the colonial government into calling a state of emergency that lasted nearly eight years.
		The turn to violence by the Mau Mau emboldened independence movements across Africa, frustrated with years of broken promises on land reform and self-government.
	www.time.com /time/80days/521020.html (274 words)

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