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Declaration of War in Kenya
by The Revolutionary Peasants and Workers of the Mau Mau Resistance

When the war was declared in 1952
Our country was turned into a huge prison.
Innocent people, men, women and children,
Were herded into concentration camps,
Under all kinds of harsh repression.

Kenyan patriots were arrested and killed,
Thousands of others were subjected
To slow death in Manyani
And Mackinnon Road concentration camps.

KAU leaders were arrested
And taken to Kapenguria
Where they faced a Kangaroo court.

The Betrayer
by The Revolutionary Peasants and Workers of the Mau Mau Resistance

Long ago the British came upon us
With weapons of war
And they successfully fought us
And drove us out and took our land.
Go away, go away, you whites,
The time is soon coming
When you will be crying for mercy.

There is a great wailing
In the land of the African people
Because of land hunger.
The wise and even the foolish,
Who among you does not see
The overcrowding in our land?

You whites are like beasts in sheep's clothing