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The Mau Mau Insurgency
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
(Samantha) In June 2013 the British government agreed to pay approximately £20 million in reparations to individuals tortured during the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya in the 1950s. But who were the Mau Mau? What was the emergency? And why do the British feel they should owe a debt?
Released:
Aug 10, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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