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  • An example is the so-called Mau-Mau campaign for independence in Kenya.

    Fabius Maximus Fabius Maximus 2010

  • Humes has the nerve to call Mau-Mau "terrorist" for waging a brutal war against the "white and black Kenyans" who were nothing but the occupying British colonial imperialists and their local collaborators.

    News/local from www.chieftain.com 2009

  • There were Mau-Mau uprisings, they were beheading white women and doing unspeakable things.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • In Kenya, an enraged Mau-Mau had speared her mama, Mimi, with a tse-tse fly; and in the jungles of Pago Pago, a dum-dum shell to the back of the head had sent her papa, Pepe, to the promised land.

    David Macaray: Double Agents David Macaray 2011

  • By this time Toot had become hysterical—she had read about the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya a few years earlier, which the Western press really played up—and she was sure that I would have my head chopped off and you would be taken away.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • You can't unblow a dogwhistle like this, but a Huckabee spokesman tried to walk it backsaying that, "The governor meant to say the president grew up in Indonesia," which (a) isn't true (he only lived there for four years) and (b) still doesn't make sense in the context of Huckabee's remarks about Churchill and"Mau-Mau guerrillas."

    Why did Huckabee think Obama 'grew up in Kenya?' 2011

  • In Kenya, an enraged Mau-Mau had speared her mama, Mimi, with a tse-tse fly; and in the jungles of Pago Pago, a dum-dum shell to the back of the head had sent her papa, Pepe, to the promised land.

    David Macaray: Double Agents David Macaray 2011

  • The point of Huckabee's "Obama grew up in Kenya sympathizing with the Mau-Mau's" remark is to tell a story about Obama's life that never actually happened.

    No, it's not okay to traffic in pure fiction about Obama's heritage 2011

  • If you are emotional radical sort, who puts personal experience * over* the importance of text, well, you're too busy invoking the energy of the Mau-Mau or something to be much use.

    ok so now I'm getting peeved. bossymarmalade 2009

  • Perhaps Obama, who grew up in Kenya, took umbrage at Prime Minister Churchill's actions in 1953 of wiping out the Mau-Mau, the Kenyan terrorists who made a specialty of slitting throats of sleeping white and Black Kenyans.

    Why did Huckabee think Obama 'grew up in Kenya?' 2011

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