THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion
The Africans: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion. Regards the constant state of internal conflict endured by many African countries in post-colonial times. Edied unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion
B&W newsreel announcing the outbreak of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya: shots of British colonial troops riding armored trucks through Nairobi streets, then getting off in urban square; shots of white woman window shopping with a small pistol strapped to her belt; shot of a piggish white colonialist with a .44 tucked into his belt.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion
B&W Air to air shots of R.A.F. bombers on a raid over Kenyan forests to destroy forest Mau Mau sanctuaries; ground explosions; shots of British ground troops patrolling the forests, light exchange of gunfire. Mau Mau rebellion
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion
Forest area in Kenya. VO says that Mau Mau fused traditional African religious ideas with nationalism. MS/CUs of Mau Mau veterans re-enacting a recruitment ceremony in which a man receives inductory rites from comrades; initiation rites, swearing allegiance; seems to involve the drinking of live cow blood, too.
THE AFRICANS: New Conflicts - Mau Mau Rebellion
B&W newsreel of British colonial troops inspecting huts for hidden Mau Mau; shots of Mau Mau rebels being arrested and captured; shots of captured Mau Mau prisoners; VO says only gradually did Mau Mau become a more unified nationalist independence movement; shot of truck hauling away Mau Mau collaborators in Nairobi; shots of ranks of prisoners in an internment camp, barbed wire in FG; VO says that although about 100 whites were killed, more than 40,000 Africans died; shots of corpses, African men killed by British. Mau Mau rebellion