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  • proper noun a group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality
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Examples

  • If the term Mau Mau sounds familiar, it might be because earlier this year, deceptively nice-seeming conservative whack-job and potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed that Barack Obama had been raised in Kenya, his grandfather was involved in the Mau Mau Uprising, and that because of this, Obama holds an anti-American dislike of the British.

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The First Grader -- Reading, Writing and Rebellion Jonathan Kim 2011

  • If the term Mau Mau sounds familiar, it might be because earlier this year, deceptively nice-seeming conservative whack-job and potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed that Barack Obama had been raised in Kenya, his grandfather was involved in the Mau Mau Uprising, and that because of this, Obama holds an anti-American dislike of the British.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jonathan Kim 2011

  • It was a questionable time to be traveling to Kenya, largely due to the independence movement, whose guerilla fighters, called the Mau Mau, were hiding in forest encampments all over the country, from which they staged their raids.

    One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

  • After peaceful protests were met with violence, they formed a group, dubbed the Mau Mau, to stop the supression any way they could.

    Johann Hari: The Ghosts of Empire Are Returning to Haunt Britain - and the US 2009

  • Alongside political freedom, the principle demand of the Mau Mau was the return of land from white colonial settlers.

    CONTENTS 2008

  • Alongside political freedom, the principle demand of the Mau Mau was the return of land from white colonial settlers.

    Class, ethnicity and the construction of a fragmented Kenya 2008

  • A guerrilla group known as Mau Mau began a violent campaign against white settlers in 1952

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The Kenyans say they were beaten and sexually assaulted by officers acting for the British administration who were trying to suppress the so-called Mau Mau rebellion, in which groups of Kenyans attacked British officials and white farmers who had settled in some of

    NYT > Home Page By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2011

  • Mr. Rabala said his firm, with the help of a U.K. law firm, is collecting more statements from Kenyans allegedly held by the British in detention camps after a 1952 uprising led by a militia group known as the Mau Mau.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TOM ODULA 2012

  • After peaceful protests were met with violence, they formed a group, dubbed the Mau Mau, to stop the supression any way they could.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

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