Mau Mau: Kenya’s Hidden War

MAU MAU UPRISING: KENYA'S FORGOTTEN WAR Documentary Script - Concise Version

(8-9 Minutes) OPENING In the forests of Kenya, men and women took

blood oaths to drive out their colonial masters or die trying. The British response? A campaign of torture

so brutal that the empire buried the evidence for sixty years. This is the story

of the Mau Mau Uprising—a war the world forgot, but Kenya never will. ACT ONE: BETRAYAL

Kenyan soldiers returned from World War II as heroes. They'd fought fascism in Burma and Italy,

bled for the Crown, and believed they'd earned their freedom. Instead, they came home to

nothing. White settlers prospered on stolen land while Kenyans were forbidden to grow the same