Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising) authorities. Within 48 hours the British had detained 206 known insurgents. In the following weeks over 50,000 Africans were detained and questioned. Nevetheless, numerous leading figures among the rebels managed to escape from Nairobi into the countryside. The operation ended on 26 May. Operation Anvil marked a turning-point in the British campaign against the Mau Mau. The action left the insurgents mostly isolated in the forested mountains of Nyandarwa and Kirinyaga without access to supplies and the assistance of passive supporters. It proved to be the most sophisticated undertaking of the Kenyan Emergency. In the following weeks Mau Mau activity
Gallery Mau Mau Roper, M&G January 30-Feb 5 1998 "Sharp contrasts make potent stuff", Benita Munitz, Cape Times "Of Freaks and Pervs", Dennis Mair, M&G "Mau Mau offers a feast of schlocky horror flieks", Ian McDonald, Argust Tonight, 1997 "B-Grade Movie mini-festival", staff reporter, Cape Times "Lesson One, Manipulate the Mainstream", Dennis Mair, M&G, November 22–28, 1996 "Photocopy art on show", Gary van Dyk, Argus Tonight Pillaging the Spoken Word", Tracy Murinik, M&G July, 10-16 1998 "Photo experiment at gallery," Leonard Shapiro, Cape Times July 22, 1998 Gallery Mau Mau Gallery Mau Mau (1996–1998) was a counter-culture "art space" situated in Cape Town,