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Oct 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They killed General Chui wa Mararo, took his body to Kamūirū in Ndia, forced the women who raised him to collect firewood to "roast their ram", and burnt him in front of his community.
Grief was met with violence: whips, butts, rungus.
Then forced to mix his ashes with the soil.
Multiply this a thousand fold between 1952 and 1960 across the region. (The British sent squads of torturers to Tanganyika to "screen" Kikuyu workers—it was so bad, that the Tanganyikan colonisers were horrified.)
Feb 19, 2023 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
Here is Field Marshal Musa Mwariama M'Kīrīgua M’Mūchīri’s take on Dedan Kimathi:
“THE saddest incident of the war effort was the death of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi in October, 1956. It would not have happened so soon were it not for his wanting to usurp too much power…”
At the time of Kimathi's arrest, the freedom fighting forces had agreed that the war machine should have 10 generals, 10 Lt. Generals, 10 Major Generals and 10 Brigadiers, or the ratio of 10 to 1 of the colonial army.
Feb 19, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
"One of the major splits among the Mau Mau fighting forces came not long after a Parliament was formed.
The colonialists had suggested a truce, that the Mau Mau forces and the colonialists start exchanging letters before they could meet physically and negotiate a ceasefire.
The colonialists had suggested a truce, that the Mau Mau forces and the colonialists start exchanging letters before they could meet physically and negotiate a ceasefire.
