The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi (AR&D Ep. 3)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into our first case study of our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. Here, Nicholas Mwangi comes on to discuss the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its legacies. Absolutely critical historical case study, you certainly want to hear it, and share with comrades!

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Nicholas Mwangi is a writer and member of the Ukombozi Library in Kenya. Additionally, he cohosts the Liberating Minds podcast, which you can also support on their Patreon.

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0:00.0	You don't remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of
0:33.2	global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.3	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my usual co-host, Professor Adnan Hussain,
0:46.3	who's a historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
0:50.3	Hello Adnan, how are you doing today?
0:52.3	I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you.
0:56.5	Absolutely. Real pleasure seeing you as always. And I'm very excited for today's episode. It is our first
1:03.4	case study within the series that listeners are now listening to African Revolutions and Decolonization,
1:09.8	which is the series that we have just started and
1:11.6	it's going to run every other week for the next roughly year and a half. So just to remind the
1:17.6	listeners of what this is, every other week we are putting out another episode within this series,
1:23.7	and alternating episodes within that series are going to be case study episodes like this one.
1:29.1	And then the other episodes are going to be more supplemental discussions, which are
1:32.9	going to be either theoretical based or focuses on specific thinkers from the continent or
1:38.5	who have written on the continent.
1:40.2	We have a lot of things planned.
1:41.8	So do stay tuned.
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