A son of missionaries, he was born and brought up among the Kikuyu tribe.Henry L. RobertsForeign AffairsLeakey, L. (1954a). Mau Mau and the Kikuyu. London: Metheun and Company Ltd.
Going downtown tomau-mauthe bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.—Tom Wolfe Usage ofMau-Mau The termmau-maucomes from the name of the Mau Mau, a militant African nationalist movement formed among the Kikuyu people of Kenya in the 1950s to advocate violent resistance ...
Going downtown tomau-mauthe bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.—Tom Wolfe Usage ofMau-Mau The termmau-maucomes from the name of the Mau Mau, a militant African nationalist movement formed among the Kikuyu people of Kenya in the 1950s to advocate violent resistance ...
[After theMau Mau,a secret society of Kikuyu insurgents that led a rebellion against the ruling Europeans in Kenya in the 1950s, perhaps from Kikuyumau-mau,sound of the voracious gobbling of a hyena.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016...
S. B.: Mau mau and the Kikuyu. London 1952. Google Scholar Leakey, L. S. B.: Maumau und die Kikuyus. (Dt. Obers.) München 1953. (Hiernach zitiert, engl. Orig. verglichen.) Google Scholar Leakey, L. S. B.: Defeating Mau mau. London 1954. Google Scholar Lindskog, Birger...
[After theMau Mau,a secret society of Kikuyu insurgents that led a rebellion against the ruling Europeans in Kenya in the 1950s, perhaps from Kikuyumau-mau,sound of the voracious gobbling of a hyena.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016...
1970; coined by TomWolfeinRadical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers;Mau Mau Origin ofmau-mau2 FromKikuyu Word of the Day [frib-uhl] Quiz Q: Choose the tense of the following sentence: We will be hiking all day tomorrow. simple future ...
It rejects the British propaganda of Mau Mau terror but it is otherway around. The fact is that only 12 white men have been killed, while the official British figure of 10,000 "Kukes" dead does not include those murde...
For an important discussion of the role of women in Mau Mau see Cora Ann Presley,Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion and Social Change in Kenya, Boulder 1992. Google Scholar Muthoni Likimani,Passbook Number F. 47927, London 1985.
the Mau MauMau Mau, the/ˈmaʊ maʊ/ a secret political organization which was started in Kenya in 1952 by the Kikuyu people, and which wanted Kenya to become independent from the UK. It used violence against Europeans whom it wanted to leave Kenya and against Africans who supported ...