MAU MAU

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MAU MAU is a Swahili abbreviation that stands for Mzungu Arudi Ulaya, Mwafrika Apate Uhuru (the white people should go back where they came from, that is Europe, for freedom to return to Africans).

The movement that fought white colonists in Kenya became known as Mau Mau.

There other interpretation of Mau Mau is that it was a war cry and symbolic oaths for freedom fighters.

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