Man Hunt in Kenya
The rise of one African leader would bring the Mau Mau movement to an end. This is the exciting story of the great MAN HUNT IN KENYA

An extraordinary man roamed the vast forests and craggy foothills of Kenya’s Aberdare plateau. He was a man of animal instincts and animal cunning. He was a Bible-reading fanatic who served the god Ngai. He was an orator whose vitriolic rhetoric had moved thousands to do as he wished. He had killed, plundered, and tortured his way to the head of a movement which had terrorized an entire country. He was Kimathi—the Kikuyu boy who became the most feared and despised leader of the Mau Mau movement.

Senior Police Superintendent Ian Henderson’s hunt for Kimathi lasted one full year. It was a year of brutal hardship and personal sacrifice spent in the tangled Aberdare wilderness—an untracked area as hazardous and difficult as any in Africa. To read of Ian Henderson’s search is to share with him the heartbreaking setbacks, the terror-filled months of climbing, cutting, clawing, sifting through a country few white men had penetrated before. MAN HUNT IN KENYA tells, in gripping detail, the last chapter in the Mau Mau story.
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Man Hunt in Kenya
The rise of one African leader would bring the Mau Mau movement to an end. This is the exciting story of the great MAN HUNT IN KENYA

An extraordinary man roamed the vast forests and craggy foothills of Kenya’s Aberdare plateau. He was a man of animal instincts and animal cunning. He was a Bible-reading fanatic who served the god Ngai. He was an orator whose vitriolic rhetoric had moved thousands to do as he wished. He had killed, plundered, and tortured his way to the head of a movement which had terrorized an entire country. He was Kimathi—the Kikuyu boy who became the most feared and despised leader of the Mau Mau movement.

Senior Police Superintendent Ian Henderson’s hunt for Kimathi lasted one full year. It was a year of brutal hardship and personal sacrifice spent in the tangled Aberdare wilderness—an untracked area as hazardous and difficult as any in Africa. To read of Ian Henderson’s search is to share with him the heartbreaking setbacks, the terror-filled months of climbing, cutting, clawing, sifting through a country few white men had penetrated before. MAN HUNT IN KENYA tells, in gripping detail, the last chapter in the Mau Mau story.
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Man Hunt in Kenya

Man Hunt in Kenya

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Man Hunt in Kenya

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The rise of one African leader would bring the Mau Mau movement to an end. This is the exciting story of the great MAN HUNT IN KENYA

An extraordinary man roamed the vast forests and craggy foothills of Kenya’s Aberdare plateau. He was a man of animal instincts and animal cunning. He was a Bible-reading fanatic who served the god Ngai. He was an orator whose vitriolic rhetoric had moved thousands to do as he wished. He had killed, plundered, and tortured his way to the head of a movement which had terrorized an entire country. He was Kimathi—the Kikuyu boy who became the most feared and despised leader of the Mau Mau movement.

Senior Police Superintendent Ian Henderson’s hunt for Kimathi lasted one full year. It was a year of brutal hardship and personal sacrifice spent in the tangled Aberdare wilderness—an untracked area as hazardous and difficult as any in Africa. To read of Ian Henderson’s search is to share with him the heartbreaking setbacks, the terror-filled months of climbing, cutting, clawing, sifting through a country few white men had penetrated before. MAN HUNT IN KENYA tells, in gripping detail, the last chapter in the Mau Mau story.

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ISBN-13: 9781787201873
Publisher: Hauraki Publishing
Publication date: 10/27/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

IAN HENDERSON (1927 - 13 April 2013) was brought up on a farm in Kenya at the edge of the Aberdare Forest. His first playmates were Kikuyu boys. In 1945, just before his eighteenth birthday, he joined the Nairobi police force, bringing with him two valuable assets: a rare talent for detective work and a rare (among Europeans) familiarity with the Kikuyu people and their language.

As the Mau Mau movement gained momentum, Henderson became one of the few links between the terrorists and the Kenya government—a negotiator who understood the strange complexities of the terrorist mind. His activities with the Special Branch detachment of the Kenya police earned him two George Medals, the highest award for bravery to non-military personnel, as well as the respect of the Kikuyu tribe, who nicknamed him “Kinyanjui” after one of their elder statesmen. Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Lathbury has said: “Ian Henderson has probably done more than any other individual to bring the emergency to an end.”

He received further top class honours from Bahrain in 1982, 1983 and 2000 respectively, and was awarded a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 1984. Henderson died in 2013.
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