Stanley Meisler was the Los Angeles Times' Africa correspondent, based in Kenya, from 1967 to 1973. Mau MAU burst upon the imagination of the world half a century ago, when newspapers and magazines ...

More than 10,000 people were killed and others tortured during the brutal suppression of the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, one of the British Empire's bloodiest insurgencies. In 2013 the UK expressed ...

July 16 (Reuters) - Here is a look at what happened in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion as three Kenyans seek compensation in a British court on Monday: * OVERVIEW: -- The Mau Mau militant African ...

A British-funded memorial to the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion was unveiled in Kenya on Saturday, in a rare example of former rulers commemorating a colonial uprising.

Three Kenyans who were tortured by British colonial authorities can proceed with their legal claims against the UK government, a court has ruled. London's High Court ruled the case, relating to the ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Nearing 100, Gitu Wa Kahengeri clearly remembers the day when, as a prisoner of Kenya’s colonial occupier Britain, he wanted to die. “I was beaten the whole day until I did not ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Mau Mau rebellion was started to defeat the white man and reclaim land. Instead, brother turned against brother as the ...

Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader is a heartwarming story of an 80-year-old man’s journey to learn how to read in Kenya’s newly promised free education system. Maruge, a veteran of Kenya’s Mau Mau ...

Two UC Santa Cruz doctoral students have been named Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellows. Raed El Rafei (film and digital media) and Christian David Alvarado ...

-- The Mau Mau militant African nationalist movement originated in the 1950s among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. The Mau Mau - the origin of the name is uncertain - advocated violent resistance to ...