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White settlers invaded State House in 1952 in protest

British Arm parade outside State House Nairobi in 1962. [File, Standard]

Organising a protest near State House, Kenya’s seat of power might be the height of folly and a great miscalculation, akin to signing your death warrant.

But such a protest did happen on the well-manicured lawns. It all had to do with the havoc visited upon the settler community by the rag tag military wing of the Mau Mau.  

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