Mau Mau Uprising
The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Mau Mau Uprising
- BBC World Service: The Story of Africa: Case Study: Kenya
- Wikipedia: Kikuyu Home Guard
- Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained: The Mau Mau
- Time Magazine: "The Meow Meows" (1952)
- PsyWar.org: Mau-Mau Uprising PSYOPS
- YouTube Video: British Newsreel: Mau Mau Chief Captured (Time: 1:12)
Mau Mau Uprising Recent News and Information
- BBC News: Bloody uprising of the Mau Maus (2006)
- The Guardian: "British brutality in Mau Mau conflict" (2002)
- BBC News: Correspondent: Kenya: White Terror (2002)
Mau Mau Uprising Background and Causes
- College of Computer and Information Science: Early Days of the Mau Mau Insurrection
- GlobalSecurity.org: Emergency In Kenya: Kikuyu And The Mau Mau Insurrection
- Suite101: Mau-Mau: Nationalist Movement or Kikuyu Grievances?
- Santa Clara University: Modern African History: Mau Mau of Kenya
Primary Sources and Historical Reports=
- Time Magazine: "Black & Red Magic" (1952)
- Time Magazine: "Spreading Terror" (1954)
- Ogiek.org: Daily Nation archives: Part 1 and Part 2
Mau Mau Uprising Central Figures
Dedan Kimathi
- Wikipedia: Dedan Kimathi
- Pete's Page: Peter Swan: "The Death of Dedan Kimathi"
- Amazon.com: Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- The EastAfrican: Dedan Kimathi was buried at Lang'ata (2001)
Waruhiu Itote aka General China
- Wikipedia: Waruhiu Itote
- Dave Blumenkrantz: Photojournalism, Documentary, and Visual Communications Studies...
- Time Magazine: General China & Friends
Mau Mau Uprising Images and Media
- NPR: Podcast: Author Details Harsh British Rule in Kenya (2005)
- British Pathe Limited: Mau Mau Newsreels, Videos, and Photographs
- FindArticles.com: Lessons from the Mau Mau of Kenya by Al-Amin Mazrui (1987)
- Flickr: Dedan Kimathi Statue
- Google Images: Mau Mau Uprising
Mau Mau Uprising Books and Research
- Google Book Search: Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson
- PowellsBooks: Mau Mau search
- Questia: Mau Mau Uprising
- Orbat.com: United Kingdom: Kenya Insurgency 1952-1960 Units and Operations
Book Reviews
- Times Online: Book Reviews: Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins and Histories of The Hanged by David Anderson (2005)
- London Review of Books: Book Reviews: Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins and Histories of The Hanged by David Anderson
- Harvard Magazine: 10 Downing Street's Gulag (2005)
Scholarly Papers
- University of Michigan: Mau Mau: Kuririkana Gitene by Robbie Bolton (2004)
- Journal of Military and Strategic Studies: Mau Mau and the Decolonization of Kenya by Hilda Nissimi
- JendaJournal: Review: Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration (2005)
Mau Mau Uprising Blogs and Message Boards
- What An African Woman Thinks: Conversations with A Freedom Fighter
- The New Black Magazine: The British War in Kenya (2007)
- The Gossamer Thread: Can I Live Without Africa? (2007)
- A Kenyan Urban Narrative: State Of Emergency (2007)
- Workers World: Mau Mau against the British Empire (2005)
- World Socialist Web Site: How Britain crushed the "Mau Mau rebellion" (1999)
- Google Blog Search: Mau Mau Uprising
Mau Mau Uprising Timeline
- August, 1952: News reaches the British intelligence of a secret society dubbed "Mau Mau"
- October, 1952: Senior Chief Waruhiu is assassinated in Nairobi for his anti-Mau Mau stance
- October, 1952: A State of Emergency is declared by Governor General Sir Evelyn Baring
- October, 1952: Jomo Kenyatta arrested
- March, 1953: 150 Kikuyu Kenyans are killed in the Lari Massacre
- April, 1953: Kenyatta sentenced to seven years' hard labor
- January, 1954: British forces capture Waruhiu Itote, aka "General China"
- April, 1954: British crackdown on Kenya rebels, Operation Anvil, begins
- October, 1956: Dedan Kimathi is wounded and captured
- February, 1957: Dedan Kimathi Executed at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison
- March, 1959: Hola Massacre
- April, 1959: Kenyatta is moved into exile
- January, 1960: Emergency rule revoked
Mau Mau Uprising in Popular Culture
- EntertainmentInsider: Review: Mau Mau (1955)
- University of California Berkeley Library: No Easy Walk summary
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Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- 1954: Africa Adventure (documentary)
- 1955: Mau-Mau (documentary)
- 1955: Simba
- 1956: Safari
- 1957: Something of Value
- 1966: Africa Addio
- 1987: The Kitchen Toto
- 2004: Empire Warriors (TV miniseries)
- 2005: The Oath
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