Both sides, the British and the Mau Mau, were anti-Communist. As I stated above, Kenyatta was a faithful US ally against the USSR his entire presidency until his death.Even today the Kenyan military is in combat against the Jihadists in Somalia. Now Nyerere of Tanzania was a true Communist. His last act was to instigate the Congo Wars of the 1990’s.
And Obama’s daddy was in the thick of it when the M&Ms were murdering black Bolsheviks.