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189019001910192019301940195019601970Long 19th century (Europe)Long 19th centuryLong 19th century20th century20th century20th centuryThe muma, a binding oath in Kikuyu custom In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe muma, a binding oath in Kikuyu cust…The githathi oathing stone In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe githathi oathing stoneAge-sets and the authority of the elders In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementAge-sets and the authority of the eldersLand alienation and the making of a grievance In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementLand alienation and the making of a gri…The Kikuyu Central Association and its loyalty oaths In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe Kikuyu Central Association and its …A sacred rite turned to politics In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementA sacred rite turned to politicsThe KCA is banned and goes underground In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe KCA is banned and goes undergroundMilitant oathing among the Olenguruone squatters In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementMilitant oathing among the Olenguruone …The oath of unity spreads In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe oath of unity spreadsMau Mau is proscribed In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementMau Mau is proscribedNairobi militants drive the oath campaign In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementNairobi militants drive the oath campai…Oath-cleansing and de-oathing ceremonies In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementOath-cleansing and de-oathing ceremoniesScreening, confession, and the dilution technique In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementScreening, confession, and the dilution…Operation Progress systematizes violence at the Mwea camps In: Colonial concentration camps and atrocities across the empires, Mau Mau: the uprising, the camps, and the reckoning, Paternal praise, colonial violence: Britain in Kenya, The British Empire and its dark history, The Kenya Police: from colonial force to a record of crimes, The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementOperation Progress systematizes violenc…Hola Camp Massacre In: Colonial concentration camps and atrocities across the empires, Mau Mau: the uprising, the camps, and the reckoning, Paternal praise, colonial violence: Britain in Kenya, The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementHola Camp MassacreThe Corfield Report and the official story In: The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe Corfield Report and the official st…The Myth of Mau Mau reframes the uprising as nationalism In: Mau Mau: the uprising, the camps, and the reckoning, The Mau Mau oath: how a sacred rite bound a movementThe Myth of Mau Mau reframes the uprisi…8 events, 1952 to 1952. Click to zoom.85 events, 1953 to 1953. Click to zoom.5

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