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Encyclopedia > Kenya African Union

Kenya African Union was a political organization that was meant to voice Kenyan voice to Britain, the colonial government of the time. It was formed in 1944. The organization was later renamed Kenya African National Union in 1960. Kenya African Union was an attempted to be more inclusive than its successor Kikuyu Central Association by avoiding Tribe politics.


External links

  • A good source of information about KAU (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/071030/0710301006.HTM)
  • A detailed history of KAU in the middle of this page (http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/khistory.htm)

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Kenya - MSN Encarta (1404 words)
Kenyatta’s arrest and later conviction and imprisonment, and the banning of KAU in 1953, spurred on the Mau Mau rebellion, in which thousands of Africans—the majority of whom were Kikuyu—fought a guerrilla war against colonial rule and settler supremacy.
As an independent country, Kenya was initially a constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch as its nominal head of state and a prime minister as head of government.
Kenya’s vice president, an ethnic Luo named Oginga Odinga, resigned from the government in 1966 and formed the Kenya People’s Union (KPU), which drew a great deal of Luo support away from KANU and presented the Kenyatta government with a challenge.
Kenya African National Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (600 words)
It was known as Kenya African Union before it was renamed in 1960.
From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the "Mau Mau" rebellion against British colonial rule.
The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was founded in 1960, to challenge KANU.
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