On September 12, a memorial to those killed and tortured during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising was unveiled in Nairobi. The memorial is a symbolic reparation addressing the harm suffered by the Mau Mau while fighting against British colonial rule, and was funded by the United Kingdom as part of a settlement between the UK government and Mau Mau veterans.
In 1952, groups of mostly ethnic-Kikuyu Kenyans, facing increasing economic marginalization due to colonial policies that included the expropriation ...
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