“You (Kenyatta) have successfully plunged many Africans back to a state which shows little humanity,” judge Ransley Thacker lectured Kenyatta at the sentencing. “Make no mistake about it,” he said, “Mau Mau will be defeated.” On April 8, 1953, Jomo #Kenyatta and five associates were sentenced by a British judge to seven years hard labor for allegedly directing the Mau Mau rebellion, a bloody, ongoing violent protest against European domination of what is now #Kenya. Who were the Mau Mau? What did the British do to the rebels and what happened to Jomo Kenyatta? Check out the video: "The Mau Mau War, Kenya's Guerrilla fighters against the British Empire" youtu.be/FD1f-1O-kno?si…
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