In December 1964, a year after the end of colonialism in Kenya, civil rights activist Malcolm X spoke in Harlem, the heart of Black America. His message was inspired by Mau Mau fighters in Kenya. In ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: The Swahili people have a saying that when things are nasty, a log can serve as a raft to enable one navigate turbulent waters but once the mission is accomplished, it’s later hewn ...

As the colonial forces were preparing to leave Kenya, in the days leading up to its independence from Britain in 1963, they were given one last order. Before they left, they took with them crates upon ...

Nyeri, Kenya - Seventy-year-old and dreadlocked, Muthoni recalls with a mix of nostalgia and bitterness how she spent the best years of her life in central Kenya as a Mau Mau fighting for independence ...

On the high seas of Mill Basin off the coast of Brooklyn there is an island by the name of Mau Mau. With a name like that, it is no wonder that a naval battle was held for the honor of this landmass’ ...

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting ...

At the funeral for one of the last leaders of Kenya's Mau Mau resistance movement on Saturday, his daughter is bitter: he fought to liberate a country that never thanked him. Christopher Njora Muronyo ...

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 ...