Birth of The MauMau Movement
Whenever we face a problem or a challenge, it is always half solved when we identify the root cause of it. Until we do, and acknowledge it for…
MauMau Who Raised Us
The MauMau freedom fighters are the parents who raised us. They had so many odds stacked against them, yet they overcame. We are the generation that was born…
Lessons from the Coup of 1982
After the news on the attempted coup and the uneasy calm that followed, my father found it necessary to talk to us about those events. My father was…
Women Head The Households
After the declaration of the State of Emergency by the colonists in 1952, a wave that swept a lot of MauMau leaders to detention, including my father, the…
Women Feed The MauMau
The other risky sacrifice the women made was feeding the MauMau fighters who were hiding in the forests. The women understood the dangers. They knew if they were…
Painful Lessons To Remember
If that history is anything to go by, he urged us to be champions of peace for our country and to teach the same to the future generations.…
Call To Shun Violence
That talk from my father has stayed with me to my adulthood. I was expecting my father to bash the leadership of the time and root for regime…
Teach The Next Generation
Like my father found it necessary to talk to us in our teenage years, using the attempted coup of 1982 as the teachable moment to let us glimpse…
Lets Emulate Our Parents
Our parents worked with any immediate neighbor who shared their hopes and dreams for their beloved country. People who were sick and tired of colonialism and were determined…
We Owe It To Our Parents
The thoughts I have shared above on my parent’s youth and their experiences of the Colonial times, the MauMau war and their participation in it, is just one…