Kenyan Torture Victims, 1950s

Truly disturbing, shocking report (The Guardian)

ABC (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph

Mail Online report

Book: Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

Update September 2015, BBC News - Kenya Mau Mau memorial funded by UK unveiled

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Old - anonymous- Kenyan blues song: "Mau Mau Blues":

"Going back to the forest, can't live in this town no more;
Going back to the forest, can't live in this town no more,
I wonder now, wananchi, what I was fighting for.

We've got our independence, but still life's just the same,
We've got our independence, but still life's just the same,
The men with the Mercedes, the Wabenzi are to blame.

Look at all the politicians, they wear the white man's shoes;
Look at all the politicians, they wear the white man's shoes,
But we're still walking barefoot with the independence blues.

When I came out of the forest, back in nineteen sixty-three;
When I came out of the forest, back in nineteen sixty-three,
They said, "Lay down your weapons, you don't need them now we're free."

Some called us freedom fighters, some shouted out 'Mau Mau'!
Some called us freedom fighters, some shouted out 'Mau Mau'!
Don't matter what they called us, they don't want to know us now.

Going back to the forest, people, can't live in this town no more;
Going back to the forest, people, can't live in this town no more.
Now I know, wananchi, what I'll be fighting for."