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Field Marshal Musa Mwariama, wearing a beret, stands among Mau Mau fighters in uniform holding rifles during a post-independence arms surrender in Nyeri, Kenya. Mau Mau Rebellion
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Field Marshal Musa Mwariama, wearing a beret, stands among Mau Mau fighters in uniform holding rifles during a post-independence arms surrender in Nyeri, Kenya.
Mau Mau Field Marshal Musa Mwariama inspecting his Mau Mau troops shortly before they surrender their arms, Kenya, December 1963.

Mau Mau

Kenyan political movement
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Mau Mau, militant African nationalist movement that originated by the 1950s, primarily among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. The movement emerged in response to grievances over land dispossession, economic inequality, and political exclusion under British colonial rule and advocated armed resistance to British domination in Kenya. Their uprising was one of the most significant anti-colonial revolts in Britain’s African territories. The Mau Mau’s uprising, which began in 1952, was part of a broader wave of...

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