Kenya African Union

…World War II was the Kenya African Union (KAU), the predecessor of the Kenya African National Union. The party’s original flag, introduced on September 3, 1951, was black and red with a central shield and arrow. In the following year the background was altered to three equal horizontal stripes of…

…become the president of the Kenya African Union (KAU; founded in 1944 as the Kenya African Study Union), which attempted to gain a mass African following.

…by a faction from the Kenya African Union (KAU), a political party that advocated on behalf of Indigenous Kenyans. From 1947 the KAU was led by Jomo Kenyatta, a proponent of peaceful transition to African majority rule. Some KAU members did not think Kenyatta’s tactics were producing meaningful reforms and…

…of young militants from the Kenya African Union (KAU). Led by Jomo Kenyatta from 1947, the KAU was a political party that existed to challenge the colonial hierarchy but had not secured any meaningful reforms, leading its more militant members to endorse taking greater action. This radical offshoot grew rapidly;…

…leadership of the newly formed Kenya African Union (KAU), of which he was elected president in June 1947. From the Kenya African Teachers College, which he directed as an alternative to government educational institutions, Kenyatta organized a mass nationalist party. But he had to produce tangible results in return for…