Chao Tayiana Maina is a Kenyan historian documenting the erased history of the Mau Mau. After the death of the last Mau Mau general in February, she explains how the colonial blueprints used to crush the Mau Mau uprising are being used on protesters around the world today | Al Jazeera English

1965:Mau mau fighters who had refused to come out of the forest appear in court after being arrested. The operation to remove them from the forest was led by the Minister for Defence Dr Njoroge Mungai and General China former,a former Mau Mau General. | Odhiambo Levin Opiyo

Leading Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya rallies for African independence in the US in 1959. He was only 28 years old when he gave this speech at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. The African Freedom Day event linked the African struggle for independence with the American Civil Rights Movement. Mboya led the Kenyan delegation that negotiated independence from Britain in 1963 and later became Minister of Justice. During his US tour he also drummed up support for his Student Airlift programme. It gave A