The head of Kenya's infamous Mau Mau faction that fought British troops in the 1950s, wants Queen Elizabeth to help settle the nation's constitutional crisis.

By compelling Mau Mau members to violate not only Christian ethics but every tribal taboo as well, says Corfield, Mau Mau leaders deliberately reduced their victims to a state where a man who took ...

Faces of the Emergency: Kikuyu mother Express-Getty Images. Newspapers ran front-page photos of colonial police displaying the Mau Mau leader's leopard-skin jacket like a hunting trophy.

Musa Mwariama whose real name was M'Kirigua M'Muchiri was among the highest-ranking Mau Mau leader. He was the only Field Marshal who outwitted the colonialists with their traps during the Mau Mau ...

In October 1956, the Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was shot and captured, effectively signalling the end of the fighting in the bush. Kimathi was tried and sentenced to death.

Jomo Kenyatta, Mau Mau's purported leader, was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour by a British judge who was paid £20,000 to secure a guilty verdict.

The family of one of Kenya's best known anti-colonial fighters, Dedan Kimathi, asks the government to resume the search for his body.

Many had lost their land and as the country moved forward under its new political leaders, the Mau Mau felt they were quickly forgotten. The national museums of Kenya, which will be responsible ...