"End of Empire - Kenya" - Mau May Rebellion in Kenya
"End of Empire - Kenya" - Mau May Rebellion in Kenya
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location:Kenya, Africa
The Mau Mau rising in Kenya was the most vicious and terrifying experience that the British faced in the final years of the empire. Mau Mau, the rebellion against British rule in Kenya, awakened the deepest European fears of primitive African savagery. The British saw in it the work of the devil. Churchill had promised the settlers "this land is yours". The Africans could not own land, only labour on the white mans farms. A young Kikuyu Jomo Kenyatta was sent to England to put the tribes case.