Mau Mau Uprising

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf revolutionary
anti-colonial movement
gptkbp:aftermath controversy over human rights abuses
British government compensation to victims (2013)
increased push for Kenyan independence
gptkbp:casualties about 200 British and loyalist troops killed
over 1,800 African civilians killed
over 10,000 Mau Mau killed
gptkbp:cause economic inequality
British colonial rule
land alienation
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Mau_Mau_Memorial_Monument_(Nairobi)
public holidays in Kenya
gptkbp:endDate 1960
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Mau Mau Uprising
gptkbp:location gptkb:Kenya
gptkbp:mediaType book 'Histories of the Hanged' by David Anderson
book 'Imperial Reckoning' by Caroline Elkins
book 'Mau Mau and Kenya' by Wunyabari Maloba
film 'Something of Value'
film 'The Kitchen Toto'
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Hola_detention_camp
gptkb:Manyani_detention_camp
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Operation_Anvil
gptkb:trial_of_Jomo_Kenyatta
mass detentions
State of Emergency declared in Kenya
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Dedan_Kimathi
gptkb:Jomo_Kenyatta
gptkb:Stanley_Mathenge
gptkb:General_China_(Waruhiu_Itote)
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:British_Army
gptkb:Home_Guard
gptkb:King's_African_Rifles
gptkb:Kenya_Police
gptkbp:participants gptkb:Mau_Mau
gptkb:British_colonial_government
loyalist African groups
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:British_Empire
decolonization of Africa
Kenyan independence
gptkbp:result Kenyan independence movement strengthened
defeat of Mau Mau
gptkbp:significance influenced British colonial policy
major event in African decolonization
shaped modern Kenyan identity
gptkbp:startDate 1952
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Decolonization_of_Asia_and_Africa
gptkb:End_of_the_British_Empire
gptkb:George_Erskine
gptkb:Archibald_Wavell,_2nd_Earl_Wavell
gptkb:Mau_Mau
gptkb:Kenya_Emergency
gptkb:Kenya_Colony
gptkb:A_Grain_of_Wheat
gptkb:Gikuyu
gptkb:Weep_Not,_Child
gptkb:Avro_Lincoln_(historic)
gptkb:African_independence_movement
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6