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Secretary Oliver Lyttelton's 360-degree turn on Mau Mau

Mau Mau detainees. [File, Standard]

The British colonial edifice prided itself on spot-on intelligence across its colonies yet they never saw Mau Mau coming.

In the initial days, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton had dismissed the budding rebellion as "more hooliganism than a deep political convulsion."

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