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The Mau Mau Insurgency

8/10/2013

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In June 2013 the British government agreed to pay approximately £20 million in reparations to individuals tortured during the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya in the 1950s. But who were the Mau Mau? What was the emergency? And why do the British feel they should owe a debt?

Podcaster: Samantha

Further Reading 
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Anderson, David. Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Berman, Bruce and John Lonsdale. Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa. London: James Currey, 1992.

“Kenya’s Mau Mau Uprising: Victims Tell Their Stories.” BBC News. 6 June 2013.

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Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
2 Comments
Anand Madhvani link
4/10/2014 10:22:41 pm

I thought this was an extremely clear analysis of a complex period in Kenya's history, generally not understood well here in the country itself
- Nairobi, Kenya

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Samantha Sagui
4/11/2014 12:35:17 am

Thank you.

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