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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."
He had no idea. Mau Mau had festered right beneath this veil of ignorance, and spread its influence across the ridges of Central Kenya and beyond.
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