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Mau Mau Women

The women in the Mau Mau movement played a large role in helping the men hide from the British. Some fought along side the men while others brought food and weapons to the men. Women fighting alongside the men was…

The Mau Mau – Kenya’s Freedom Fighters

Mau Mau (rhymes with cow) is a term used to describe the Kenyans who fought against British rule in the 1950s for land and political freedom.  No one really knows where the term Mau Mau came from.  It was possibly…