The Mau Mau absolutely were brutal terrorists. They tortured and killed many thousand of their own Kikuyu tribe for refusing to take the oaths, or failing to turn on their white employers when ordered. The rebellion was put down by 1956 but upon Independence in 1963, it's leader, Jomo Kenyatta, became president. That was when the terrorists became freedom fighters, and Kenyatta bestowed upon them countless appropriated British settler farms and government positions. This process was still going on when I lived there in the early 1970's - a farmer would wake up one morning to find police lorries offloading scores of ex-freedom fighters, who then forced out the owners. Productive farms became wastelands overnight, and the entire country descended into corruption that has became steadily worse over the last 50 years.
I don't know if Uhuru was banned, or if the ban on Something of Value was ever lifted.
