It took a lot of guts for one to join Mau Mau movement and more so a woman; but for Mama Deborah Wambui Nderitu she dined with Dedan Kimathi and was there when Gen Stanley Mathenge disappeared. She ...

The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), in partnership with Royal Media Services, has embarked on a seven-week media blitz consisting of television, radio and print publicity beginning 24 February ...

The Mau Mau movement was a nationalist armed peasant revolt against the British colonial state in Kenya, its policies and supporters. The exact origins of the movement, as with most secret societies, ...

Of all the colonial revolts that have convulsed Asia and Africa since World War II, none have matched Kenya’s Mau Mau movement for sheer grisliness. In seven years ...

More than 50 years after it was imposed by the British, the Kenyan Government has lifted the ban against the Mau Mau, the movement that fought against British colonial rule. Mau Mau, or the Land and ...

A British court ruled on Friday that three elderly Kenyans who were tortured under British rule in the 1950s could pursue their claim for damages from London, a judgement likely to encourage other ...

A statue of Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi, who was killed in 1957. K. Gituma/Wikimedia For 40 years, successive Kenyan governments turned their back on the Mau Mau. The armed movement sprang up in the ...