Maji Maji
East African revolt
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The Maji Maji uprising was a revolt against German colonial administration in southeastern Tanganyika between 1905 and 1907. This was a reaction to the harshness of German rule. The uprising was ultimately suppressed by the German authorities.1
It is important to distinguish this from the Mau Mau Rebellion, which took place in Kenya in the 1950s. The Mau Mau movement, primarily composed of Kikuyu people, protested land dispossession and political exclusion under British colonial rule.3
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