Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya

• Mau Mau

• 1952 - 60
• Kenya offered different problems with multiple tribes and groups in the colony.
• Europeans had been granted much of the best land
• Kikuyu
• The Mau Mau rebellion targeted European settlers especially in their isolated plantations and farms
• State of Emergency declared
• Suspects were rounded up and imprisoned
• Very brutal response to very brutal attacks
• Gruesome murders were meant to terrorise the European population into leaving.
• Carrot and Stick once again
• Land made available, wage increases
• A promise of independence,
• but only if law and order are present