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The Mau Mau, a largely ethnic Kikuyu rebel group in Kenya fighting to overthrow the state government of the British Colony and Protectorate of Kenya from 1952 – 1960, hid for many years in the forests, during which time their hair grew into long locks.
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Mau and largely
Albeit largely anecdotal, the Egyptian Mau is well known for intelligence and close bonding with responsible and loving owners.
Mau and Kikuyu
The Mau Mau movement was also a bitter internal struggle among the Kikuyu.
Because of the crimes perpetrated by Mau Mau and because the Kikuyu have made themselves Mau Mau.
Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau.
* March 25 – 26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.
It involved a Kikuyu-dominated anti-colonial group called Mau Mau and elements of the British Army, auxiliaries and anti-Mau Mau Kikuyu.
Some publications, such as Fred Majdalany's State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau, claim that it was an anagram of Uma Uma ( which means " get out get out ") and was a military codeword based on a secret language-game Kikuyu boys used to play at the time of their circumcision.
Mau Mau was " perverted tribalism " that sought to take the Kikuyu people back to " the bad old days " before British rule.
The psychological war became of critical importance to military and civilian leaders, who waged it in the time-honoured colonial fashion of divide and rule, always trying to " emphasise that there was in effect a civil war, and that the struggle was not black versus white ", attempting to isolate Mau Mau from the Kikuyu, and the Kikuyu from the rest of the colony's population and the world outside.
In driving a wedge between Mau Mau and the Kikuyu generally, these propaganda efforts essentially played no role, though they could apparently claim an important contribution to the isolation of Mau Mau from the non-Kikuyu sections of the population.
Mau and rebel
The capture of rebel leader Dedan Kimathi on 21 October 1956 signaled the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau uprising, and essentially ended the British military campaign.
The war is considered by some the gravest crisis of Britain's African colonies The capture of rebel leader Dedan Kimathi on 21 October 1956 signalled the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ended the British military campaign.
* the military control of Nairobi, Kenya by British security forces from April 24, 1954 in an attempt to sever rebel supply lines during the Mau Mau Uprising
Ian Henderson was famed for his role in capturing Mau Mau rebel leader Dedan Kimathi, which he wrote a book on, with the title " The Hunt for Kimathi ", also published under the title " Man Hunt in Kenya " by Doubleday.
Mau and group
In 1991, he and other artists founded the Mau Mau Rhythm Collective, a group set up to use the power of hip hop music to publicize other efforts and movements.
In the meantime, an underground, militant rap group called the Mau Maus ( presumably named after Mau Mau ), led by Hopkins ' older brother Julius ( Mos Def ), becomes increasingly angry at the content of the show.
In 1610, a ship from Monnikendam under skipper Symen Lambertsz Mau perished in the Hudson River ; but Rijser successfully returned in the St. Pieter in 1611 and Block and his fellow captain Hendrick Christiaensen returned the next year in 1612, bringing back furs and two sons of a native sachem in the Fortuyn and another ship outfitted by a group of Lutheran merchants.
A Samoan hip hop group that was founded in 1990 by Kosmo, MC Kha Tha Feelstyle Orator and DJ Rockit V. The Mau was named for the Mau movement.
The motto of the group became the same as the motto of the Mau movement ; Samoa Mo Samoa, or Samoa for Samoans.
The Mau has now reformed as the group Rough Opinion.
The group still carries the message of the Mau movement as their theme.
With two other New Zealanders, Kosmo started the hip hop group called " The Mau ".
A 2003 petition asking the Parliament of New Zealand to repeal the Act attracted 100, 000 signatures, and the Samoan rights group Mau Sitiseni filed a petition on the issue with the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 2007.
The group has also been involved in much communally sensitive activity, including the Mau riots of October 2005 and the Gorakhpur riots of January 2007.
During the Vietnam War, the area nearby Ca Mau was a stronghold ( in Vietnamese: Chiến khu cách mạng ) for the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam also known as the " Viet Cong ," a Hanoi-backed guerrilla group fighting the United States Army and the South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War.
Mau and Kenya
The Bongo Surveillance Programme, working alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service, have recorded photos of bongos at remote salt licks in the Aberdare Forests using camera traps, and, by analyzing DNA extracted from dung, have confirmed the presence of bongo in Mount Kenya, Eburru and Mau forests.
* Maloba, Wunyabari O. Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of Peasant Revolt.
From Mau Mau to Harambee: Memoirs and Memoranda of Colonial Kenya, Tom Askwith.
* 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
In the early 1950s the Mau Mau movement of violent resistance to British rule was active in neighbouring Kenya.
Widowed during the Mau Mau years in Kenya, she was the " talented amateur " who saw her aid to Steed's cases as a service to her nation.
* The Mau Mau began retaliating against the British in Kenya.
* January – The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya, officially ending the Mau Mau Uprising.
** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family ( father, mother and six-year-old son ).
* January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
Mau and fighting
By this time the Mau Mau was fighting for total independence of Kenya.
The fighting during this phase differed from Tet Mau Than and " Mini-Tet " in that no U. S. installations were attacked.
Mau and state
Aziz moves to the Hindu-ruled state of Mau and begins a new life.
From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the " Mau Mau " rebellion against British colonial rule.
The Mau Mau Rebellion began in 1951 and KAU was banned, and a state of emergency was declared on 20 October 1952.
The state motto of Hawai ' i is a recurring line in the song and encompasses the meaning of Iz's message: Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ( proclaimed by King Kamehameha III when Hawai ' i regained sovereignty in 1843.
When Western Samoa finally gained its independence in 1962, Tupua Tamasese Meaole, brother of the Mau movement leader, became its first co-head of state with Malietoa Tanumafili II.
Shortly before a state of emergency was declared by the imperialists in colonial Kenya on the night of October 20, 1952, the name of Mũmbi was invoked as a rallying call to unite the Agĩkũyũ in a fight for the independence of Kenya, under the banner of what came to be known as Mau Mau Uprising.
Shortly after that, Kenya was placed under state of emergency by the new Governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, and Kariuki joined the Mau Mau uprising.
Mau district (, ) is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India and Mau town is the district headquarters.
Mau district is situated in the south-eastern part of the state with headquarters at Mau town.
According to the 2011 census Mau district has a population of 2, 205, 170, roughly equal to the nation of Latvia or the US state of New Mexico.
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