🇰🇪Kenya’s Mau Mau: The Last Battle l Witness

Filmmaker: Jemma Gander We follow the journey of Kenyans seeking justice for Britain’s role in the torture during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising. Filmed over three years, The Last Battle traces the story of a small group of elderly Kenyans in their successful fight to win acknowledgement of the abuses suffered at the hands of the British colonial authorities at the height of the 1950s Mau Mau emergency. With intimate and disturbing interviews, observational footage, photographs and archive, this revelatory and compelling documentary follows the developing legal case and lays bare a history that was deliberately hidden, allowing the central protagonists to tell the world, for the first time, their stories and what happened to them. FILMMAKER’S VIEW By Jemma Gander As a British filmmaker I first learned of the independence struggle in Kenya after reading an article in an African magazine. I was both shocked yet eager to find out more about these freedom fighters who