Take one inspirational-teacher movie, weld it to an underdog story, weight it with lessons from history and slather on a layer of cross-generational charm. Then shoot it with beauty and fill it with ...

Docudrama. Directed by Justin Chadwick. Starring Naomie Harris and Oliver Litondo. (PG-13. 103 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Take one inspirational-teacher movie, weld it to an underdog story, ...

There are two types of shujaas. One advocated for independence gained through constitutional means, and the other waged a liberation war. The stories of the constitutional side have often been told ...

In the blue-black darkness of an African night last week, a gang of Mau Mau warriors crept out of the squalid shantytown where the huge Negro majority of Nairobi’s population lives, and moved, unseen, ...

But for Africans, Mau Mau was the sound of liberation. Although there’s no expert consensus on its origins, a Ugandan writer I know who spent twelve years in Kenya tells me that in Kiswahili, Mau Mau ...

Prisoners are marched towards Githunguri court in Kenya during 1953 at the time of the Mau Mau uprising - AFP It is actually a file I have consulted myself – using my bare hands! Indeed, I and ...

At dawn, two white Kenya policemen climbed into a jeep and drove down the rutted trail that leads from Nyeri into the forest at the foot of Mt. Kenya. It was still dark among the camphor trees, but ...

The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting ...