Mr Day predicts that victory in the British courts could win many thousands of Mau Mau veterans six-figure sums in compensation.

BBC: Mau Mau rebels threaten court action

Kimani Maruge is an 85-year-old Kenyan, a veteran of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonialism in the 1950s, and, as of last year, a full-time pupil at school in rural south-west Kenya.

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Hui Wing Mau is the chairman of Hong Kong-listed Shimao Property Holdings, one of China's largest real estate developers with more than 70 projects currently under way, according to the company's latest financial report.

FORBES: Hui Wing Mau

Kenyan Ogiek hunter-gatherers claim to have been expelled from their Mau forest after a UN REDD pilot project was launched there.

ECONOMIST: Will REDD trample on the rights of traditional forest folk?

Liquid Robotics, the Silicon Valley startup that makes the surfboard-sized robot called a Wave Glider, announced Wednesday that Papa Mau arrived off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on Nov. 20 after surviving storms, sharks and 25-foot surf while its solar-powered sensor arrays collected terabytes of data on ocean and atmospheric conditions during the year-long journey.

FORBES: Ocean Robot Completes Record-Setting 10,000 Mile Journey

Throughout his journey, Papa Mau navigated along a prescribed route under autonomous control collecting and transmitting unprecedented amounts of high-resolution ocean data never before available over these vast distances or timeframes.

ENGADGET: Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider breaks Guinness record, does it in the name of science

The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.

ECONOMIST: Mau Piailug