MAU MAU

Uma Uma Ma Umau

African liberation

Justice and Freedom

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kikuyu the Meru and the Embu

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kamba and the Maasai people 

More than 11,000 gave their life 

Dedan Kimathi spirit never died

Organized, colonials were frightened

No heavy weapons 

Nighttime we would step out yeah 

Swift and lethal 

Educated, fearless yeah

Stanley Mathenge

Our leaders were illegal

Institutional upheaval

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kikuyu the Meru and the Embu

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kamba and the Maasai people 

Banned by them

Who sought to terrorize dem

Look again

Africans united

Secrets within 

Oaths they were taken yeah

Batuni Uma Uma

General Gatunga

With the strategy guerilla

Field Marshall Muthoni yeah

Women they fought hard ya

Land and Freedom Army 

The Forty Group we honor 

Deep in the forest where the ancestors we call on 

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kikuyu the Meru and the Embu

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kamba and the Maasai people 

They call us savage

But who is the bandit 

Colonial domination

We had to resist

This movement ya it had to exist

Another uprising our voices were lifted 

All demands they were granted 

Kenya independent 

Loyalists sabotage but like weak heart they got shift, so

We hold firm in our grandfathers way 

Let them go back cause we are here to stay

This is Kikuyu land always…

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kikuyu the Meru and the Embu

Mau Mau is the warrior

Is the Kamba and the Maasai people