Mau

“We only went to Kenya because a Nairobi businessman fumbled in his jacket pocket.” So begins Nicholas Rankin’s hybrid of history and memoir focused on the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s. The businessman’s car keys “snagged the trigger of his Beretta, and he shot himself in the stomach. My father got his job.”Historians don’t write history, they curate it, and in Trapped in History Rankin challenges his own childhood absorption of propagandistic accounts of Britain’s imperial past. Nearly 70 years after his arrival in…

An industry analysis report showed that Facebook has seen an over 25 percent decline in the number of monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea across the past two years.The South Korean MAU tally for Facebook (operated by Meta) reached 11.09 million as of last month, compared with 14.87 million in May 2020, when the company started compiling related data, according to Mobile Index, the data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks.The tally was based on data from the mobile app stores of Google and Apple.The July…

The East Central Railway will undertake the doubling work at the Yusufpur-Karimuddinpur stations in the Varanasi division. As a result, at least 13 trains on this route will remain affected until July 30. These two routes are part of Ballia-Aundihar railway section. While notifying the upgrade, the Chief Information and Public Relations Officer of East-Central Railway, Virendra Kumar said, “A total of 13 trains in the East Central Railway will have their routes changed until July 30.” Train no- 15232, Gondia-Barauni…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Movies Culture Sudbury's Bruce Mau has had a number of what might be deemed successful failures Bruce Mau's many slogans can fit neatly onto buttons. Photo by levelFILM Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content It’s easy to imagine an edit of Mau, a new documentary about Canadian design icon Bruce Mau, that makes him out to be…

When Canadian designer Bruce Mau was invited to Guatemala to help reimagine the country’s future, they introduced him as Bruce, who was “going to redesign Guatemala”. Although this was a bit of a stretch, the scale at which he helped change the nation’s outlook was similarly huge. Guatemala was originally called Guate by the Indigenous people, but the Spanish later added mala, meaning bad. Mau’s first move was to add an “a”, creating “Guate! Amala!,” or “The love of Guate.” The slogan was part of a larger campaign to…