Mau Mau

Synopsis

In October 1952 the British government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya. Its object: the defeat of "Mau Mau." In the war that followed, fewer than 40 of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers were killed while more than 15,000 Africans lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands more were arrested and subjected to a humiliating and often brutal process of "rehabilitation." But what was Mau Mau? A movement based, according to the British Colonial Secretary, on a "perverted nationalism and a sort of nostalgia for barbarism"? Or the Land Freedom Army, an organized political and military response to repression and armed aggression? Using newsreel and previously inaccessible archive footage, and drawing on interviews with participants on both sides, Mau Mau examines the myth and the reality of Africa's first modern guerrilla war.

Main Cast

Musindo Mwinyipembe

Narrator

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Sound	Ivan Sharrock
Directing	Director	David Koff Anthony Howarth
Production	Producer	David Koff Anthony Howarth
Writing	Writer	David Koff
Crew	Cinematography	Bruce Parsons Mohinder Dhillon
Editing	Editor	Roger Buck
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