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 ...

Mau Mau rebellion was started to defeat the white man and reclaim land. Instead, brother turned against brother as the rebellion reached its peak in 1955. Described as a one-legged devil by the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and ex-Mau Mau fighters show "how it was done." [File, Standard] Today ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Lawrence Mathenge, representative of the Mau Mau War Veterans Association, ...

More than six decades after Gitu Wa Kahengeri was jailed, tortured and denied food in a British-run labour camp in Kenya, the anti-colonial fighter says he is still waiting for justice. Now in his ...

Two UC Santa Cruz doctoral students have been named Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellows. Raed El Rafei (film and digital media) and Christian David Alvarado ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British policemen hold Kenyan villagers at gunpoint in 1952 - Bettmann Sixty years ago this month, the Union Flag came down in ...

NYERI, Kenya (AP) — Sixty-five years ago, Britain's Princess Elizabeth went up into a treehouse safari lodge and watched elephants below. She was informed that her father had died and she descended ...

During the Mau Mau uprising between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government confined an estimated 150,000 Kenyans in a sprawling network of "emergency" detention camps. None of those held in ...

-- The Mau Mau militant African nationalist movement originated in the 1950s among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. The Mau Mau - the origin of the name is uncertain - advocated violent resistance to ...

An 89-year-old Kenyan man who was the Queen's porter 65 years ago when she was informed of her father's death has revealed how he had a good opinion of the young royal, but later joined the Mau Mau ...