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 … Continue reading Malcolm X On the Mau Mau and Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990 with Supplemental: Why Kenya’s Mau Mau gave up their fight, by Anaïs Angelo