Reading herein: Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration. Edited by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale

“Kenyatta’s relationship to the movement was ambiguous. The British arrested him in 1952 on suspicion of being one of its leaders. But after independence his pleas to “forgive and forget the past” were often accompanied by a clear dissociation from the Mau Mau. He continued to describe them as a “disease” and they remained banned under Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi”…From the Supplemental below.

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Supplemental: Why Kenya’s Mau Mau gave up their fight, by Anaïs Angelo

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