Cant wait for all the 
tears this year
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That'd at least be edgy. It ain't like southern Africa doesn't have a lot of commie groups with cool names. Zimbabwe African National Union, Zimbabwe African People's Union, People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, Mau Mau, Spear of the Nation.
... Judean people's front, The People's Front of Judea...
Werent those two Zimbabwean parties mortal enemies until the united front happened against Rhodesia? And one of them was Maoist and the other was more orthodox ML and wanted to recruit among the urban proletariat, except Rhodesia had very few of those and quite a lot of angry peasants / landworkers.
I thought Mau Mau was a name the Bri*ish imposed on Kenyan resistance groups rather than a name they used themselves?
Apparently the main revolutionary who said this also said they claimed it as their own. All the possible origins are really neat, and it seems pretty clear the British didn't create the name but rather chose it from the movement's phrases or someplace local as a means of denying the KFLA name which would imply political legitimacy.
Which KFLA also sounds cool as hell when said phonetically
Oh interesting. Thanks for correcting me
Here is his memoir if anyone wants to read it https://archive.org/details/maumaudetaineeac0000kari
Still sounds cool
Don't forget SWAPO which sounds so cool in song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chNWEouwv0U
or my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXo98ViR9IU
Seriously folks check out Namibian communist music, some of the best out there