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Land Freedom Army
Post-War Developments
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Unemployment, poor housing, low wages, inflation and homelessness produced a groundswell of discontent and worsening crime
'Forty Group' - consisting largely of former soldiers - were ready to employ strong-arm tactics in opposing the government's poliies and dealing with its supporters.
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Kenyatta found difficulty in controlling the surge of militancy - he favoured constitutional means to oppose colonial rule but was outfalnked by militant activists prepared to use violence.
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Grievances of KCA in Nairobi, Rift Valley and Kikuyu reserves
More than 100 square miles of Kikuyuland in the vicinity of Nairobi had been alienated for European settlement
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Burgeoning in the main part of the White Highlands in the Rift Valley - land had been cleared for white occupation largely by removing the pastoral Maasai people
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In Kikuyu reserves there was growing resentment of the new conservation methods enforced by the govt to prevent land degradation
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Pressure on land in K. reserves was aggravated further by senior tribal figures accumulating even more land for themselves
Kenyatta's role in the KAU, etc
Leading activists in Nairobi, while using his name to justify their actions, regarded him with profound suspicion
When the govt asked him to denounce the Mau Mau publicly, he obliged "Let Mau Mau perish forever"
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As violence grew worse, new governor decided it would be best to lock up all KAU leaders
October 1952 - Baring declared a state of emergency and ordered the detention of Kenyatta and 150 other political figures - a move taken by Mau Mau activists as tantamount to a declaration of war
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