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The Mau Mau - Empire of Blood - Part One
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Kenya, 1952. Beneath the surface of the colonial order, something was stirring—something ancient, defiant, and dangerous to the British Empire.
This is the story of the Mau Mau: a secretive and feared movement, bound by a powerful oath of loyalty, land, and blood. An oath whispered in the forests, taken in darkness, and sworn to reclaim stolen soil. For Britain, it was branded as savagery. But for the Kikuyu people, it was a desperate fight for survival.
In this episode, we follow historian Caroline Elkins as she digs into the origins of the rebellion. She uncovers the truth behind the British land grab that dispossessed entire communities. She exposes the empire’s network of detention camps, the calculated use of violence, and the system that turned colonial subjects into suspects—tortured, broken, and silenced.
And then, just as Elkins begins to unearth the full scale of the horror, the files begin to disappear. Archives once promised to researchers are suddenly missing.
Part Two is coming—and with it, the story of a cover-up so vast it reached into the heart of the British state.
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