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The Chuka massacre, which happened in Chuka, Kenya, was perpetrated by members of the King's African Rifles B Company in June 1953 with 20 unarmed people killed during the Mau Mau uprising. Members of the 5th KAR B Company entered the Chuka area on 13 June 1953, to flush out rebels suspected of hiding in the nearby forests.
The Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule during the first half of the 20th century. [1] Mau means 'resolute' or 'resolved' in the sense of 'opinion', 'unwavering', 'to be decided', or 'testimony'; also denoting 'firm strength' in Samoan. The motto for the Mau were the words Samoa mo Samoa (Samoa for the ...
The Hunt for Kimathi is a 1958 book by Ian Henderson and Philip Goodhart about the pursuit and capture of Dedan Kimathi, leader of the Mau Mau during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. [1] [2] The book was also known as Man Hunt in Kenya. The book was controversial due to its depiction of Kimathi. [3] The Sydney Morning Herald called it a ...
The Lari massacre was an incident during the Mau Mau Uprising in which the Mau Mau massacred approximately 74 people, including some members of the loyalist Home Guard, but mostly their families: women, children and elderly relatives. [4] Those murdered included prominent local loyalist Luka Kahangara.
Today these two books are probably his best remembered works. Twenty stories were also published in the book Robert Ruark's Africa. [3] Ruark's first bestselling novel was published in 1955. Entitled Something of Value, it describes the Mau Mau Uprising by Kenyan rebels against British rule.
Specifically, Weep Not, Child deals with the Mau Mau Uprising, [5] and "the bewildering dispossession of an entire people from their ancestral land." [6] Ngũgĩ wrote the novel while he was a student at Makerere University. [7] The book is divided into two parts and eighteen chapters.
His books on the subject include The Mau Mau War in Perspective, The New Ideology of Imperialism and The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race. In recent years his work has been oriented towards exploring the sociology of risk and low expectations.
Petals of Blood is a novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and first published in 1977. Set in Kenya just after independence, the story follows four characters – Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega – whose lives are intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion.