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Mau Mau: Kill or be killed - the dilemma African labourers faced

A Kikuyu woman picking coffee in the white highlands during the colonial period 1950s [file]

During the Mau Mau rebellion, African labourers working in European homes often found themselves between a rock and a hard place.

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