"Chao Tayiana Maina is a Kenyan historian who documents the erased history of the Mau Mau."
"After the death of the last Mau Mau general in February, she explains how the same colonial blueprints used to crush and misremember the Mau Mau uprising are being used on protesters today in Nairobi and across the world."
Chao Tayiana Maina documents the erased history of the Mau Mau. The death of the last Mau Mau general in February underscored ongoing official forgetting and contested memory around the uprising. Maina shows that colonial blueprints used to crush and misremember Mau Mau struggles have persisted into contemporary tactics. Those same frameworks are applied to suppress and reshape narratives of protesters in Nairobi and in other global contexts. Historical erasure and the continuity of repressive methods shape public memory, accountability, and ongoing struggles for recognition and truthful commemoration.
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