Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya by S.M. Shamus Alam, PhD

Kenya

Kenya is a country in East Africa with a population of 44 million people and the largest economy of the region.

Kenya’s forgotten Mau Mau freedom fighters and the impeached deputy president that stood up for them

Kenya General 1975 - 1987

Mukami Kimathi and the Scramble to Own Mau Mau Memory

The struggle for control of Mau Mau memory and memorialisation resurfaces with the burial of Mukami Kimathi.

Kenyan Timeline

The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years

Members of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule

During the height of the Mau Mau Uprising, Sir Evelyn Baring, colonial governor of Kenya, introduced the death penalty f