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Mau Mau
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mau-mau Mau-Mau
English
Proper noun
1
A group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya, active in the 1950's.
en 2009 Michela Wrong It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower Just as it is sometimes impossible to find a Briton who voted for Margaret Thatcher, and every Frenchman’s father appears to have been in the Resistance, every Kikuyu seems to have had a father who fought valiantly for Mau Mau.
en game A card game for two or more players, similar to crazy eights.
Translations
a group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya
Portuguese: pt Mau-Mau m-p
card game
Czech: cs prší n
Dutch: nl pesten n
German: de Mau-Mau n
Polish: pl makao n
Ukrainian: uk мака́о n
See also
en mau-mau
en KLFA
en Kenya History of Africa