When Britain's Colonial Rule Backfired: The Mau Mau Rebellion
Вставка
- Опубліковано 12 лют 2024
- Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing
features MyHeritage has to offer: bit.ly/ADayInHistoryMH
On March 26, 1953, 97 men, women, and children were slaughtered in the southern central Kenyan village of Lari. They had been woken up in the middle of the night by screaming men and women armed with an assortment of weapons, from a few WWII-era rifles and pistols to pangas - the Swahili word for machete-like weapons and other farm implements. Then they herded into large huts, which were doused in gasoline and set afire. Those who tried to escape the fire were then set upon with pangas and hacked to pieces. The attackers were part of the Mau Mau movement to free Kenya from British colonial rule.
No one knows where the name “Mau Mau” came from - not even those who participated in the group. Some say it originated with British police and militia from words and chants in Kikuyu, the dominant language and ethnic group of the movement and the largest in Kenya. Others believe it came from Kikuyu words having to do with the all-important oath that members took. “Mauma” means oath, and “muma” means “oath-taking” in Kikuyu. The word became a sort of catch-all term for many of the groups fighting for independence against the British in Kenya and nearby British possessions. The men and women of the Mau Mau never used the term. They were part of the “Land and Freedom Army” and often called themselves “freedom fighters.”
What we know for sure is that for much of the 1950s, the Mau Mau terrified the British in Kenya and their Kenyan supporters, of which there were many. The Lari Massacre was the worst of many atrocities carried out by the Land and Freedom Army during the Mau Mau Uprising from 1952 to 1960, but the British and their followers committed many brutal attacks and persecutions as well.
#maumau #history #britishhistory #thebritishempire
Sources:
Barnett, Donald L., and Karari Njama. Mau Mau from Within, by Donald L. Barnett and Karari Njama.
1966.
"The Life of Gen. Musa Mwariama." Africa Archive. Last modified February 20, 2023. africarchives.wordpress.com/2...
"Mau Mau Abuse Case: Time to Say Sorry." The Guardian. Last modified April 10, 2011. www.theguardian.com/commentis...
"The Mau Mau Rebellion." Boston University. Accessed October 30, 2023. www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/te...
Reporter, Staff. "Muthoni, the Dread of the Empire." The Mail & Guardian. Last modified April 26, 2013. mg.co.za/article/2013-04-26-m...
Copyright © 2023 A Day In History. All rights reserved.
DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to adayinhistory2021@gmail.com
Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing
features MyHeritage has to offer: bit.ly/ADayInHistoryMH
“The pursuit of peace is often the greatest motivation for war” as my history professor once said
I noticed your name. Makes sense that you'd have a smart professor. I had the thought yesterday that the peddled dream of 'world peace' can never be something obtained, nor was it ever intended to be. Not by the colonials, anyway.
It wouldn't be economically viable.
Freedom ain't free
shame professors don't teach that anymore; even Aesop's _Boar and the Fox_ concludes it's a good idea to keep piece by being prepared for war
My mother fled Kenya while she still had legs at the age of 8. She said that they were threatened with hacking their legs off. She never spoke Swahili again.
Are you white?, why were your mother in kenya?, you dont look european!
They weren't going to do that to a child, they told her that to make her run away because if they really wanted to do that, they could have. It's totally on her family for choosing to side with the colonizers like the cowards they were.
@@5islands even if they did not want to do it to her it is still pathetically, cowardly and unambigiously grotesque, befitting of a spineless weak willed weasel to say that to a child. do better and dont defend the indefensible
They did do that to children. A white family in Nairobi came into their kitchen to see their cook sitting there quietly - on the table was the dismembered corpse of their child who had all his limbs and head chopped off. In the farming regions whole families were also slaughtered - there are photos from the time that are quite disturbing with blood spattered teddy bears etc. Native people however suffered far more - the oathing rituals of the Mau Mau were forced on the unwilling in the most atrocious ways. Most of the casualties in the Mau Mau were Kikuyu killing Kikuyu on both sides. Jomo Kenyatta described it accurately (in my opinion) of more a civil war amongst the old and new attitudes of the Kikuyu. @@5islands
@@5islands ... "Like the cowards they were" ... As an indigenous Australian, I can say I agree 100%.
They killed fellow Kikuyus, in a most horrible way, by the thousand and only 100 British. Kenyatta soon got rid of them when he took power. Not the heroes they are seen now.
Your people were the ones in gunias selling out freedom fighters sindio? Traitors 😂
Exactly - Kenyatta characterised the Mau Mau as more a civil war amongst the new-thinking Kikuyu and the old-thinking Kikuyu. He was correct and the Mau Mau was ultimately a failed conflict that delayed Independence and unsettled the country prior to Independence. It also laid bare the ambition of the Kikuyu (who were advantaged by European rule) to dominate the political sphere in Kenya.
@@mimisikujui5514funga mdomo....mkikuyu arudi shungwaya aendelee kuishi na bantu wenzake huko....invaders
@@frankyyaggabot6222What does the black in Kenya's flag stand for?
So what are you saying: That Kenya is a racist ethno-state - better notify the United Nations! I do know that when a white Kenyan trend to run for Parliament (Leakey) he was beaten and Moi addressed the country the next day stating that whites while permitted to marry blacks could not run for Parliament ... Imagine the uproar that would have occurred if the then US President would have told Obama the same thing! Who would have thought that Kenyans were bona-fide institutionally racist! @@Matemo
Am Kenyan, a Kikuyu at that, thank you for sharing our history
Re : an apology for atrocities committed by the British in Kenya, don't hold your breath.
Will the Kenyans apologize for atrocities they committed?@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw
I'm the son of a White Kenyan who fled during the mau mau rebellion
@@thekriegsman1743 wise decision anyway...Kenya is sh!t and the Kikuyus think all the land theirs.... tribalism wreaks within them
@@thekriegsman1743White Kenyans don’t exist
Thanks ❤️
Interesting video 👍👍
Given how the Mau-Maus ended, the video should be titled "When rebellion against Britain's Colonial rule backfired".
That's a fair point
I see it differently. Daily News at their rebellion was going to be answered with crushing oppression. But they understood that it's better to live free and fight for your own freedom and self-determination than to live under foreign Colonial domination. And in none of those colonial states that were set up by European powers, was there any freedom or prosperity for the locals. Don't even get me started about what king Leopold was doing in the Congo . All of the colonizers brutalized the native africans.
britain shouldve left these people alone
Did the Brits leave? Well there you go.
Sorry,I don't know much about this, can U elaborate?
As an Indian I like mau mau
W
Well, bit of History for you ... the Mau Mau also massacred Indians in Kenya! Also, there was only one minor tribal war that occurred when the borders of Kenya (part BEA) were drawn up - it was put down by Indian Troops (who were a little savage in doing so).
@@frankyyaggabot6222 Why are you so obsessed with the Mau Mau?
@@frankyyaggabot6222 what were the Indians doing in Kenya.
@@lotcam4046 The Indians came initially for the East African Railway (the native people were not in sufficient numbers and not reliable - they would walk off the job). Some stayed to create trading posts along the railway (many small towns in Kenya grew up around these). They then created businesses in the coastal and interior regions. Although the British preferred to create administrative jobs with the native peoples the Indians proved better at filling these as was the case with the legal system. Gujaratis and Parsees have traded with East Africa in History way before the Europeans arrived (usually through the Zanzibari). The first coinage of British East Africa was the Indian Rupee.
In many countries of the old British Empire Indians were actually in greater numbers than European peoples and in some instances (e.g. Fiji) this became problematic as they almost eclipsed the local people.
Good video.
Some of my now deseased relatives participated in the Mau Mau uprising or were sympathizers. It and it’s aftermath is an insane history.
My great grand father's land was taken and a police station was built there. He had to work as a stone mason to support his family.
My granddad was sent to prison for taking the oath and reporting on the British coz he worked for them
My grand mother was put in a detention (concentration) camp
while expecting my father.
This brutal empire hurt 4 generations of my family that I can trace.
Most are gone, my parents were kids now they are grand parents
What good is an apologizing to us? We weren't there.
Are they going to apologize to tomb stones?
My grandfather was mobilised to kenya to put down the rebellion & he fought against the mau mau, and he lived until 2014, but refused to speak about what took place in his time in Kenya.
You cant just say african tribes where fighting each other as if europeans not fought each other for 100yrs war, africans are not monoethical and different tribes are not just few hundreds but in millions they were not just tribes but nations and the europeans came and forced them into conolial artificial borders
And Sharka did the same.Not only whites to blame.
@goodinson7550 He never said only Whites to blame and you know it. And Shaka was just one ruler. the English colonized and killed people across the entire planet, and their Germanic cousins started two global wars! So trying to down play the the atrocities of the UK with that excuse is pathetic.
@@donaldgoodinson7550shaka didn't do anything as savage as the white😂s
The British were far more savage same with the Europeans
Nations and states
Africans don't exist in tribes
Well said
Mau mau was only a localised area with few groups who were involved some numbering a thousand were terrorists and killed or arrested.
Uma Uma out, out is Mau Mau in Gigikuyu reversed.
Just try to think about the ordinary confused, abused and mistreated people wanting nothing more than a LIFE !!
America🇺🇸: Let's protest our rights peacefully.
Kenya🇰🇪: Rebellion, Rebellion, Rebellion, Rebellion.
The way the brits were set up here, it was the only way to get them out.
American Revolutionary War:
"Peacefully" yeah right
the americans never protested peacefully, you should've used the example of india
@@justacat2 India didn't protest peacefully, Hindu vs Islam was rough
Britain gonna need it's own maumau like movement soon
Truly believed ?…Why not ? He was right. Post independence the entirety of Africa was almost immediately plunged headlong into a seething, raging confusion of sickening violence, decay, neglect , and destruction of any & all services & infrastructure,
"A variety of legal tricks"? OK then.
Really glossed over the absolute savagery and cruelty of the British here.
Did you watch the video? 12:00
@@tempo5366what’s that have to do with anything?
The Africans didnt have the wheel when the Europeans came and brought civilization to a savage and Stone Age people they shouuld be thanking us....... Never apologize for your ancestors colonization it HELPED the areas colonized......... God Save the King
my cat was in the mau mau rebellion
Dear Day in History, could you pls explain the divide and conquer tactic in more detail? The tribal groups were already at war with each other and the British did bring the rule of law and peace and technological advancement?
5 million people died. Take every tribal war, over hundreds of years- and you will not reach 5 million.
Now, the colonizers, with their guns, and vehicles: did not need to burn villages or kill tribesmen to such a degree, if trade and conquest was their only goal.
They just wanted the resources.
I understood that the Mau Mau existed in the Congo not so much in Kenya
That's the Mai-Mai
I don’t get it is he saying people shouldn’t fight colonisers
Not their families
@@user-kc6qr5eo1k would do you mean
@@mrjugurtha4077 do you even watch the video?
@@playerjack2566you can’t reason with stupidity
Barbarian
Remember my grandpa talking about mau mau targeting him and his family because they supported the British.
a nation's history is edited to selective memory
Mau Mau was reversed from the word Uma Uma which means' Get Out! Get Out!'
Oh the sob stories when natives revolted after decades of oppressions and the family of the colonisers fled for their lives
Movie makers in India had been making movies on how British child got caught in the mayhem is saved by the hero
No this is when blind hatred is fed
So the moral of the story: visiting the sins of the father on the son: An example of this is mass migration to Britain, bringing misery to poor white English, by High Property prices amongst other issue's due to mass immigration.
My uncle was one of those killed.
Was he a settler, policeman or soldier?
Except the king's speech was vague and did not include admission of guilt on behalf of the british forces. Only "the rebellion was regrettable and horrid" and no "the riflemen were unjustified with killing women and children"
Who cares? Don't expect others to treat you in a way you do not treat them, lest you be labelled a supremacist.
@@TheoOosthuizen-xs2nq "who cares" considering the very bloody rebellion i think alot of people cared
@@udomannheim2119 Why should I care that they rebelled? Why ought Europeans treat people in an egalitarian fashion? What happens if they don't?
@@TheoOosthuizen-xs2nq Where the british "elected" by the indigineous people though? What other options did they have except to --rebel-- respond with armed force against the invading, and later, the occupying forces.
(how dare they use armed force to take back the lands we forcibly take with armed force)
@@yousarrname3051 What you seem to not understand, is that you're trying to make moral arguments, in which you assume your moral framework is absolute, which is not the case.
Let's start with your first question, did you even have the concept of democracy before being colonized? No. You're assuming you had some egalitarian society but history shows you had slavers and warlords taking pieces of land for themselves who weren't egalitarian (since an egalitarian legal and thus humanist moral system isn't absolute, just one opinion out of many). You didn't have an egalitarian humanist form of society until after colonialism, and such a system is just one among many, which though old has only in the last few centuries truly flourished due to European Enlightenment ideals. So stop being a hypocrite.
Secondly, never condemned the rebellion, I'm anti-English myself, just not anti-colonialism because that was the way of the world until Europeans abolished it, you've committed a strawman fallacy.
MAU MAU stands for Muzungu Arudi Ulaya mwafrika apate uhuru
Second amendment
the American 2nd amendment has no place in Africa.... it is not valid. If you are referring to 2nd Amendment of Kenya; I am pretty sure they never had a 2nd Amendment... or even if they got a constitution back then.
ah yes the mau mau rebellion. famously lead by Pappa Ooo
Please don't go and use My Heritage or any other similar program. They will tell you what you told them and keep all your information and can't promise to who they'll give it and to who they won't. Just keep your money, do something good for yourself 💗
Heel program.
While I condemn the violence of the Rebellion, I cannot deny the Brits were in the wrong as they went the extra mile and incarcerated the Kenyan population in Concentration Camps.
Not sure how incarcerating a colonised people in camps is 'going the extra mile' which means unselfishly helping people.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx “going the extra mile” in this context means they made the excess effort to be malicious.
Justly helping people off their land and wealth😂😂😂so benevolent
@@hivemind3942 some of these comments bowl me over also. colonizers never helped anyone but themselves. They lie and smile to the natives and tell them they’re helping them all the time they’re finding a way to take over and steal from those indigenous people it is what colonizers have always done.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Pro palestinian (70 iq max) struggles with simple reading comprehension. No wonder you have an islamist flag as your pfp
Can you remake this and catalogue the inhumane atrocities committed by the British in Kenya and specifically against the Mau Mau… The concentration camps, the dismemberment, the cold blooded murders etc. Thanks mate
We weren't as bad.
@@NigelHatcherN perhaps our neighbours the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish maybe to differ
It backfired on the Mau Mau, they lost. I had uncles from my African and British family who fought on both sides of the conflict.
Lost? Do the whites still occupy the so-called 'white highlands'? No! That's coz they were sent packing.
3:02 Also there's a theory that says Mua Mau came from the word "Uma" which means leave or get out.12:06 The brits were so scared of the freedom fighters that they declared a state of emergency and carpet bombed the Mt. Kenya forest and Abadare highlands. An old grandmother told us that when she was caught as a teenager, the brits cut her fingers & toes so she couldn't take food and information to the fighters in the forest. Most males were killed while women were abused sexually, and wives and mothers were left with scars. There were many wars that the Mau Mau & other freedom fighters were involved. Most of them were never documented by the British. But these stories were told by the heroes in great detail. Most notable of the undocumented wars was the battle at Kinungi & The wars between brits & the coastal, western, & pastrolists.
The King cannot make an official apology as that is something only politicians are authorised to do; as a constitutional monarch (the Japanese Emperor is another good case in point, he expressed "deep hurt" over the sufferings his countrymen caused to Britain, China and the other Allied nations) he is barred from making political statements.
As a Kenyan🇰🇪🇰🇪, am proud you are telling of this history, this part won't be forgotten, the rebellion was as a result of the unjust colonial practices of the British on Kenyans
You poor victim. Perhaps you should stop stealing land from South Sudan you hypocrite.
do you condemn the killing of civilians by the rebels?
Why did all the tribes in Kenya (even the majority of the Kikuyu - who formed the Kikuyu Home Guard and who killed the majority of Mau Mau) side with the Colonial Administration?
@@mateopribyl9218do you condemn the British exterminating tribes?
@@valtontony826 if you give me evidence yes. otherwise i accept that the british committed atrocities during colonialism that i condemn. however your condemnation of the massacre should not be dependent on mine. do you condemn it?
we would have been so much better off today under British rule. No idea why the brits gave up rather than unleashing their military might and quelling the rebellion. we have gained nothing from inepedence, only more oppression but from people who look like us and speak our language. At least under the British we were on track to becoming a developed, orderly and prosperous nation.
What a tragic story. Little good seems to come from this world.
My ancestors
My grandfather was a mau mau fighter who used to tell us tales of jungle encounters with the British!
He died 3 yrs ago
My great uncle was a british soldier who fought in ww2 and then later in Kenya against the Mau-Mau. He died in the 90s.
Africa......
Topanga? Man she was hot
Jesus...
Pa papa um mau mau. Pa papa um mau mau!
the Rivetins -- 1963,
Britain had 0 reason to be there. 🙄
They have billions of reasons. All can be compile under one category. Resources...
@@AminAb-hd1whyeah, greed
Actually Kenya cost more to run than the British ever got out of it. There was no readily available resources in East Africa (bit if a disappointment really - the German Kaiser when told how much Tanganyika cost to run wanted no more to do with it) and it was only when the British set up farms and Coffee, Sisal, ... industries that the region even began to approach breaking even. @@AminAb-hd1wh
Welcome to conquest, your opinion matters little.
@@frankyyaggabot6222they destroyed the richest land of all known history of until 1700s they started gaining power and drained it so much the than which had 25 Percent of global wealth. Became 3% when they left
I spent my childhood in Kenya. I still remember he terror we children felt when Mau Mau were mensioned. Mau Mau were a terror to all who worked for the then governmnt.
Same tactics in america right now.
They did the same in India
A formal Apology opens the door to expensive litigation. Once someone or something, in this case the British Government, formerly apologised they in effect accept responsibility and will be sued.
If I were part of the British Government I would expect an apology for the atrocities committed by the Mau Mau
You cannot be serious. Oh... you are.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxhe's not intelligent enough to see the irony
That's why they are still doing it! They need to have their money confiscated and paid weekly at benefit levels for life. It would free Britain and the world. They class Freedom Fighters as terrorists, it's the other way round but the elite have masses of unlimited funds and arms. Level it up.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx obviously unlike your ignorant self. Jog on love
Why would they apologize for Mau Mau rebellion? It's not like they invaded british islands and committed those atrocities in their homeland. That's what usually happens when you invade other peoples land. They tend to resist. You can't blame them for that.
preparing for arab colonial rule
A member of Rage Against the Machine, bragged his parents fought against the British in Kenya. Notice they didn't live there anymore.
Saar Endea is world toilet 🇳🇪🇳🇪🇳🇪 Saar Endea beats everything in crime poverty and inflation saar Endea is best country in the world 🇳🇪🇳🇪🔥
Richard Huckle, Epsteien, Peter Schully
Largest producer of C-Pawn is Europe, Largest consumer of C-Pawn & Redr00ms are US UK & Europe.
@@AsifAli-od1cf Stfu Ali endea is best cuntry 🐄🐄🐄🐄💩💩💩
When British Colonial rule backfired...
MauMau, Australia, United States, India, Singapore...
Didn't backfire in Singapore. they still love the empire and monarchy very much
@@TPDTND They Are More loyalist To Chinese "!
@@greatkaafir7478 recognise power when you see it
This was what the Brits feared in India which had the largest native-manned army, air force and navy in the world after WW2. The Indian navy mutiny of 1946 threatened to spread to the army and air force at a time that the INA soldiers and officers were being tried in court with nationalist sentiments being aired. The Brits got the message and fled as quickly as they could with skin intact. It was their brilliant success though that their portrayed savior of India was Gandhi, an idiot in a loincloth spouting non-violence as almost a religion. This has stymied India and its Hindus for almost a century to our eternal shame. That is now over.
I suppose when Jinah told Congress it was either partition or war that was the fault of the British too? By the way, that Army was called the British Indian Army and had been raised and trained by the British for nigh on a century. It's established traditions and culture live on in the modern Indian Army.
But you said its eternal, so how can it be over?
Please understand the language you are trying to use.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 Why do I see you defending colonialism under every fucking comment? Like you must be a sick, deranged, and racist European nationalist or something
@@glennross85 Pretty sure when he/she said "That is now over", he/she was referring to the time of Indians being convinced that their subservience to Britain was lifted many years ago with the help of Ghandi, while it really hasn't as a result of the far more abstract concept of neocolonialism, where much of the country's resources and wealth is mostly still being funneled to Britain and not being used to benefit the people of India. You weird people and your perverted thirsts for a "GOTCHA!!" moment is so annoying, like go find something better to do with your time, seriously.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 yes that was also the fault of the Brits.
MAU MAU is abbreviation for Muzungu Aende Ulaya Mweusi Apate Uhuru. White men return to Europe Black men get Freedom
This was just a piece of the price for britains so called "Victory" in WW2.
42nd, 13 February 2024
South Africa was economically prosperous
Law and order was just before 1994
Its very apparent what ANC rule has done
Rebecca Turner
Where are you?
People of other races where treated cruelly by the whites in power. Prosperity coupled with persecution is not a virtue but is pure evil.
Not the violent history of MauMau but the liberation struggle of mau mau that you need to tell us.
Mau Mau were more intent on slaughtering their own people.
And it wasn't successful.
Why not..this is part of the story..there is vids about the liberation...
😂 lmao ok...
If Brittain start to apologize for all the atrocities they committed, they'll be very busy doing it! Wonder if their king would have the balls to admit and apologize to the Afrikaners of South Africa for the thousands of woman and children they murdered by putting them in concentration camps.
Never apologize for past deeds done by your ancestors....... If anything celebrate them as bring civilization to a savage Stone Age people who didnt even have the wheel............ Europeans are the reason Africa has a growing population now because of the infastructure and modern medicines and peace we brought the savages........ God Save the King..
Africans didn’t need the wheel.
Was it based>!?
Yes.
Mau Mau bad news. British did not commit atrocities. Their native allies may have
You're fooling nobody.
Actually it's 'mainly' true: Massacres such as Chukwa were enacted by native soldiers and most of the atrocities in detention were also enacted by native policemen/guards - still doesn't excuse the chain of command (which was largely white) and in the instances massacres did take place it was predominantly the white officers who did time (and not the natives). @@Backpfeifengesicht45
Did my own family tree back before the internet, got as far back as 887 A.D. to a Danish viking from whom the family surname came. This took a very long time and entailed some expenses, but it was really quite worth it. Do yourselves a favor and use one of these newfangled services, it will take less time and have less impact on your budget.
The Mau Mau? No thanks, I don't join clubs.
... apart from the club of your own tribe.
You said a whole bunch, mostly about yourself lol like we care. You said a whole bunch of nothing.
If you go back that far you are related to millions of people.
Based Mau Mau.
Can’t help but notice the subtle but prevailing pro western and imperialist bias all through the videos on this channel
Yeah anything less than absolutely bashing west and victimizing rest is unacceptable stfu
Whites were everywhere, including France > Korea and Dutch / American > Japan
FYI:
> means “is greater than”.
Your sentences reads:
“France is greater than Korea and Dutch / American is greater than Japan”
@@sendthis9480 In their thought process they were, to "tame the savages" so to speak. The only problem was Japan / Korea / China had cannons and gunpowder weapons since the Song dynasty so some resistance was strong.
The Muslims were in Africa for 14 centuries,
@@dac33nr58qing dynasty was corrupt and the power struggle and refuse to modernize early like japan lead to end of qing dynasty, their was empror who tried to do 15days reform but the conservatives were against it and made empress dowger cixi to reverse all the reform he tried to do which lead to boxer rebillion, in end japan moderinized and became ambitious but europeans were just more advanced and united then east asia
@@dac33nr58 the qing dynasty was so advanced they lost all support after a 2 year old became Emperor
the brits also were great uniters. before the brits came these trbies were all engaged in inter tribal wars and bloody violence,
Bulshit! Colonization doesn't benefit the colonized, it only benefits the colonizers. What the French and the British and other European colonizers were doing is setting the different tribes against each other. Arming and supplying one group of people to fight against the others, then ruling the region by proxy through the group they sponsored. The only reason why the Europeans were in Africa was to harvest African resources, including the labor of the people themselves.
No they weren't, they were brutal oppressors who were oppressing people in their own land. These different tribes as you call them were separate nations with separate languages Customs histories and traditions. They came in and Drew lines on the maps, enforce people who lived in different countries and regions into one Colonial state. And it wasn't to unite them into a single unified nation, but rather to force them to work and harvest resources for the benefit of the British Empire and not for themselves. So they had every right to rise up and slaughter their oppressors. They knew that they probably would not survive the counter-attack from the British empire, but they also knew that death was better than bondage.
@malkum77ify both are true. You, however, live in a fairytale. Most conquered were extremely savage no different than Indians in North American.
Most not all. Quit crying, we live in a new day and age with different principles and your way of thinking is just going to restart the cycle of our species climbing back up.
Like Shaka lulu's empire on his death. Instead of taking what their labor made n progressing off it they burned it n went back to living in squalor because it's easier.
@user-nz6bk7lf8u LOL! So I guess then we can conclude that the French were a bunch of savages and barbarians when they were conquered by the Third reich, right? And I supposed to say can be said when the Japanese Empire conquered the Philippines and most of the islands in the Pacific, right? Or when Iraq invaded Kuwait? So you believe that might makes right, and all the conquered are automatically "savages"? As far as I'm concerned, the real savages are the ones who invade, conquer, and subjugate people who are not their equal militarily are the savages. A truly civilized culture when entering to a mutually agreeable and beneficial trade agreements what's that people's so that's both parties will want to participate.
As far as Africans in Native American being so-called savages, based on what standard of measure? Bonito population of North America add governments and treaties and trade agreements amongst themselves. I guess you never heard of the Iroquois confederacy. It was an agreement among five tribes in Northwestern New York from which the framers of the Constitution took inspiration. Furthermore, were it not for the so-called Savages in North america, most Europeans would not have survived in North America. Unfortunately, the new arrivals from Great Britain repaid the Native Americans generosity by giving them blankets that once belonged to smallpox victims. And we can also talk about how King Leopold, the bastard who was cutting off arms and legs of Africans in the Congo who were working in his rubber tree plantations. Sounds to me you subscribe to the belief that might makes right. And those that have the power to do what they want should. Those who believe that power justifies itself will eventually find themselves in the underdog position.
@@user-nz6bk7lf8u in short, they were far more Savage than the so-called Savages they were oppressing.
🇺🇸
😂😂 they free but poor .
Now they run to n🇬🇧 to bum benefits
better poor and free than be in constant chains and have all meals
@@chrispine9788 who cares they ash now like
@@tonyturner5024 gay
A lot of racists in this comment section
No there’s not. There’s like 20 comments total at this point. Most of them say “great video”.
You’re just being a drama queen.
It’s the “in” thing to call everyone a racist and you want to seem “in the know”.
Grow up.
There are only 37 comments and none of them are racist why are you lying
@@sendthis9480 Theres litteraly a comment that says “subhuman rebellion” how am I wrong?
Look I exagerrated, but I am not wrong about the prescense of Racists/British Empire Revisionists.
One comment calling others subhumans: *exists*
This guy: "A lot of racists in the comment section"
The mau mau opened the psychological floodgates of military fight back that in the fullness of time overwhelmed the British criminals.the balloon of British exceptionalism was spectacularly busted by the mau mau.and of course the hard knuckle of the good Kalashnikov created the final push.but one thing I will always be thankful to the British is their training of Kenyans to be among the best thieves in the world,just like them,the greatest beer in the world Tusker,and their language that gives us a headstart to the world trading houses.africans were and are never blind to the good even in evil and if these fantastic thieves had not closed their social economic doors to Africans we would not have let them leave us!strange,but they lifted us up and we saw new but treacherous horizons to where they stopped us getting.and real money!cash bank notes!
Are you on crack?
I think Britain bankrupting itself to fight ww11 had something to do with breaking your so called colonisist bubble
Just like a Kenyan to view civilisation as a step up to beer drinking and thieving. I don't know what to say other than you are halfway correct!
I am looking forward to an apology from the Mau Mau (which literally translates as terrorise) to the British. Your video was very one sided and misleading. The history of Kenya since independence has been a nightmare much like the rest of that part of the world.
Africa was better under British rule
Bulshit! How is oppression and exploitation better than freedom? Better than self-determination? How is a foreign power coming from a whole another part of the world to force you to adopt their language Customs traditions and way of life and forcing you to work for them to harvest resources for their benefit at your expense? Because that's what Britain France and other European powers were doing in africa.
You'll need evidence for that. The historical record tells us otherwise.
If that's the case, then Great Britain was better under Roman rule. France was better under Nazi rule. Lol! Absolutely nobody is better under an oppressive conqueror. What you really mean is: "Africa was better under white European domination". Conquest never benefits the Conquered.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
Look at South Africa
Pre Apartheid and post Apartheid
Use your common sense
Lazy observation
@@fortunatomartino8549 I prefer evidence. Pre apartheid was before 1948 and ended in the early 1990s. The ANC government has a lot of serious flaws, mostly because it is a capitalist government that has given much of South Africa's human and natural resources to outside investors and has not distributed the wealth created by its working class to that class. As a consequence, poverty, crime and inequality are rife. The country desperately needs a socialist, working class revolution.
A similar story to what we saw unfold recently in Wakanda. Brave people fighting back against the milk skins.
Wakanda is not true and fake story
Wakanda?🤨
@@hulktopf5031 the most highly advanced African civilization. With the strongest fighters.
@@paulgibbons2320What are you smoking?
@@hulktopf5031A movie reference.
Africa has been from time immemorial a place of brute savagery, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, where warring tribes took enemies as slaves, sold them at markets and butchered them for food.
It was the Europeans, and in particular Britain, that brought the light of science and learning to these places in an attempt to civilise them.
Europe has been, from time immemorial a place of cave-man style savagery, particularly Western Europe, who learned from other civilizations, with more advanced quality of life than them, then betrayed and warred against these civilizations. The Moors...a "mixed Afro-Arab" people led mostly by BLACK African military generals of Arab armies, taught you that bathing more than once every few years won't hurt you, science is not magic, more knowledge of trade routes, and that the world is round (though your religious & political elite didn't pay attention). After learning how to compartmentalize the knowledge taken from ancient Rome, the Moors, and others, into long term psychological and advanced warfare...especially the divide and rule concept, you came to Africa...800 plus years after your Indo-European cousins, the Arabs, already betrayed and conquered the Black Africans NORTH of the Sahara. Realizing that unlike non-Africans, Africans (as a collective) have no desire for global domination, are, relative to Europeans & Asian groups (especially the groups who stepped foot on Africa), the most hospitable to strangers, and generally less cautious of outsiders. So the Europeans beat the Asian invaders of Africa at their own game, conquered both groups, wrote books and even skipped over the books of the Bible in order to justify your morally bankrupt r*ping, murdering and global genocidal behavior, while pointing at the much smaller scale "barbaric" actions of Africans! Simultaneously you create global economic and political "laws" that you break when it's convenient for you, then pretend to be so "evolved" from your past savage practices that has created genocide of a minimum of 3 continents put even the majority of your own "superior race" in poverty!. So the barbarian, Neanderthal, morally bankrupt, hypocritical, lying behavior of you and racists who think like you haven't changed! So much for attempting "civilize" Africans. Be thankful that Africans have REFUSED your style of civilization...it's the reason there's any Europeans left alive on the African continent.
You might need to retake history class or read a book. You shouldn’t go full stupid like that.
Actually to see Africans selling the corpses of other Africans and butchering them for food you only have to go as far back as 30 years ago in Monrovia, Liberia. The slave trade in all corners of Africa can found in history books - suspiciously hard to find on the Internet though! Most slavery in Africa ended during the colonial period. However for non-colonial African countries slavery persisted - For some idea of the time periods concerned - Ethiopia/Abyssinia only gave up slavery in 1943 - it is estimated at the time that 1 in 3 Ethiopians was a slave. @@Mr.Universe
Actually to see Africans selling the corpses of other Africans and butchering them for food you only have to go as far back as 30 years ago in Monrovia, Liberia. The slave trade in all corners of Africa can found in history books - suspiciously hard to find on the Internet though! Most slavery in Africa ended during the colonial period. However for non-colonial African countries slavery persisted - For some idea of the time periods concerned - Ethiopia/Abyssinia only gave up slavery in 1943 - it is estimated at the time that 1 in 3 Ethiopians was a slave. @@Mr.Universe
What he said is true .and you're the one that needs to learn history.😂@@Mr.Universe
Subhuman rebellion.
Meow meow