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Mau Mau Uprising: Jomo Kenyatta
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The Mau Maus didn't achieve immediate independence for Kenya. Inflamed by bloodlust and insufficiently armed to attack the Europeans effectively, they killed 100 times as many blacks as whites; and the movement was eventually put down. But that uprising, and the fear of similar actions throughout Africa, transformed that continent's political map as the Europeans pulled out and many colonies became independent nations in the late '50s and early '60s. The reputed former Mau Mau, Jomo Kenyatta, eventually became the President of Kenya.
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Leigh Day & Co. were first approached by the Mau Mau to represent them two years ago. At that time they were a banned organisation. Although they were the freedom fighters who had played the most crucial role in bringing about independence in Kenya in the 1950s/early 1960s, Prime Minister Kenyattafound it convenient to play down their role. The organisation was banned and this allowed the myth to develop that the Mau Mau had been a gang of butchers who had committed terrible atrocities.
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In other words, there would be no day of reckoning for the crimes committed during Mau Mau, no memorializations of those Mau Mau men and women who had fought in the forests and died in the camps and villages. There would be no prosecutions of former loyalists, and certainly not of any of the British colonial officers or settlers, many of whom continued to live very privileged lives in Kenya. In the end, the fruits of freedom were going to be divided up between Kenyatta's emerging oligarchy, the loyalists, and those settlers who remained in Kenya. It was a scenario that the British colonial government had fantasized about for years, albeit with a slight twist.
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Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenyan independence movement, is convicted by Kenya's British rulers of leading the extremist Mau Mau in their violence against white settlers and the colonial government. An advocate of nonviolence and conservatism, he pleaded innocent in the highly politicized trial.
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