Mau Mau Uprising

The Mau Mau uprising, also known as the Mau Mau rebellion or the Kenya Emergency, was an armed conflict from 1952 to 1960 in the British Colony of Kenya between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army and the British colonial authorities. The Kenya Land and Freedom Army was composed mainly of Kikuyu, Meru and Embu fighters, with support from units of Kamba and Maasai; the Luo and Kalenjin, who had led earlier resistance movements against colonial rule such as the Nandi Resistance of 1890 to 1906, were largely not part of its core structure, and many from these communities instead served in the King's African Rifles, the colonial military force through which the British maintained internal security and put down the uprising. The Kenya Land and Freedom Army fought against the British Army and the local Kenya Regiment, which included European settlers and African loyalists.