Dedan Kimathi

20th Century

Kenyan Kikuyu fighters launch an armed revolt against British colonial rule. Britain responds with detention camps and systematic torture. The brutality of s…

• 1952 CE

  Mau Mau uprising in Kenya

  Kenyan Kikuyu fighters launch an armed revolt against British colonial rule. Britain responds with detention camps and systematic torture. The brutality of suppression exposes the violence underpinning empire and accelerates the timeline toward Kenyan independence.