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The Mau Mau uprising and man-eating lions
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Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes focussing on Kenya. We hear about Muthoni Kirima, one of the last Mau Mau fighters to come out of hiding and lay down her arms. Caroline Elkins, Professor of History at Harvard University, discusses the brutality of the conflict between Kenya’s Land and Freedom Army, the British and Kenyan loyalists. Next, when Princess Elizabeth became queen while staying at the Treetops Hotel, a lodge in the Aberdare National Park. In 1997, scientists travelled to Kenya, in search of a cave believed to have been the den of the man-eating lions that terrorised railway workers in 1898. Plus, we hear how Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and…