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The struggle for independence

“Vade Retro domum” - “Nolo Relinquere”

Kenya

“ The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya
Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963)
between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as Mau Mau, and the

British authorities.

Dominated by the Kikuyu people, Meru people and Embu people, the KLFA also
comprised units of Kamba and Maasai peoples who fought against the white European

colonist-settlers in Kenya, the British Army, and the local Kenya Regiment (British
colonists, local auxiliary militia, and pro-British Kikuyu people)

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The Mau Mau Uprising created a rift between the European colonial community in Kenya
and the metropole, and also resulted in violent divisions within the Kikuyu community.

Suppressing the Mau Mau Uprising in the Kenyan colony cost Britain £55 million and
caused at least 11,000 deaths among the Mau Mau and other forces, with some

estimates considerably higher. This included 1,090 executions at the end of the war, the
largest wartime use of capital punishment by the British Empire “

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“ Kenyatta, who advocated a peaceful transition to African majority rule, traveled widely
in Europe and returned in 1946 to become the president of the Kenya African Union

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Kenyatta and other Africans were charged with directing the Mau Mau movement and
sentenced in 1953 to seven years' imprisonment; Kenyatta was released from prison in

1959, but was then confined to his home.

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Numerous economic and social changes resulted either directly or indirectly from the

Mau Mau uprising.

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Although the leadership of the KAU had been arrested, the party was not immediately
banned, because the government hoped that new party leadership might provide a more
moderate approach. However, this was not forthcoming, and the party was banned by

mid-1953; African political organizations were not allowed again until 1960.