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Title: | The Truth about the Mau Mau Movement: The Most Popular Uprising in Kenya |
Author: | Wa-Githumo, Mwangi |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
Volume: | 20 |
Pages: | 1-18 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Kenya East Africa |
Subjects: | Mau Mau Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration colonialism nationalism politics Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 political opposition Freedom fighters |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520300 |
Abstract: | Between World War I and World War II some of Kenya's protonationalists came to realize that the political, economic and educational aspirations of the people of Kenya could never be realized without armed action. Between 1946 and 1952 this understanding was translated into the creation of a movement, which later came to be known as the Mau Mau. The Mau Mau movement was possibly the most crucial resistance movement in colonial Africa during the years following world War II. It accelerated the pace of nationalism and ensured that British East Africa as a whole achieved independence much sooner than otherwise might have been the case. Also, the history of the Mau Mau movement is inextricably the history of the struggle for the return of all lands that had been expropriated from Kenya's agrarian and pastoral communities by European empire builders, commercial companies and settlers. Contrary to the popular belief, the Mau Mau movement was not 'anti-European' or 'anti-white'. It was 'anti-oppression' and 'anti-exploitation'. This paper provides a brief picture of the Mau Mau movement. Notes, ref., sum. |