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A British-funded memorial to the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion was unveiled in Kenya on Saturday, in a rare example of former rulers commemorating a colonial uprising.

King Charles and Queen Camilla will soon be arriving in Kenya ahead of their three-day tour around the country, with visits to Nairobi and Mombasa and a state dinner on the itinerary for the royals.

July 16 (Reuters) - Here is a look at what happened in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion as three Kenyans seek compensation in a British court on Monday: Sign up here. -- The Mau Mau militant African ...

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 ...

In the blue-black darkness of an African night last week, a gang of Mau Mau warriors crept out of the squalid shantytown where the huge Negro majority of Nairobi’s population lives, and moved, unseen, ...

Across the East African nation of Kenya, whispers of a painful past still echo. For the dwindling band of Mau Mau freedom fighters, the scars of British colonial rule are not distant memories but ...

Kenya’s Mau Mau fighters unexpectedly became part of a viral online discussion after American streamer IShowSpeed learned about their connection to the history of dreadlocks during a conversation in ...

The author’s account of his youth amid Kenya’s 1950s anti-colonial uprising is an unforgettable mix of history and memoir “We only went to Kenya because a Nairobi businessman fumbled in his jacket ...

Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed regret and announced compensation for Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s and 60s. Thousands of people were killed during the Mau ...

The Kenyan Government has dropped a colonial-era ban on Mau Mau freedom fighters, who spearheaded the east African country's independence movement in the 1950s and are now claiming compensation from ...