The Mau Mau, its spy unit, the Komerera and the women combatants.

[pingli-nywee]

I always wondered...Was Mau Mau purely a Kikuyu outfit/organization?Were their any other tribes involved with them during that time? From the little history I know seems they were the main force used to evict the white man..Did the others contribute?

Let me google it...They always fascinated me...

(Starts searching google...)

I know that the last of the Mau Mau Generals to come out of hiding, in the forest together with his men, General Baimunge was not Kikuyu. Anyway feel free to put up your findings, on this thread.

 

[pingli-nywee]

The fearless General China(Waruhiu Itote), read about his exploits and his effect on the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin. THE MAU MAU GENERAL WHO STOPPED IDI AMIN IN HIS TRACKS. In his heydays,

General China in the courts in Nyeri with his lawyer, A.R. Kapilla during his sham trial by the colonialists.

General China just after a fierce gunfight between troops under his command and the colonial forces. Where he was shot and captured, in January 15, 1954.

 

[Niksta254]

Haha, i can see were your anger is coming from. Just for the record, bashing will not stop even if the world will split into two pieces.

cause you are goats... who has respect for goats?.. only good to be bashed in the head and eaten

 

[Naby Keita]

Hawa wanajua tu wizi na dhuluma

 

[LightYagami]

Then they died poor after Jomo Kunyatta betrayed them after independence. U r pathetic as u have nothing to brag of as far as African Liberation is concerned!

Why you always so bitter about Kenya? Always negative, always. Such a prick

 

[pingli-nywee]

Field Marshal Musa Mwariama, pictured together with the then Prime Minister Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, just after Kenya gained its independence. https://JamiiForums.com.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/08/79038_5c5d916b93392a09f94b32310b486f48.jpg

 

[mwaswast]

Which Maumau? The one that stole land from any non Kikuyu Kenyan after independence?

😛😛😛

 

[pingli-nywee]

Why you always so bitter about Kenya? Always negative, always. Such a prick

Not neccesarily bitter, but green with envy. Bad mind and empty.

 

[Naby Keita]

Vikundi vya wapora ardhi na wezi

 

[pingli-nywee]

Face of resistance

Some leaders of the Mau Mau at a meeting in their forest hideout.

A unit of Mau Mau fighters, in the forest, as pictured before the declaration of emergency by the colonialist in 1956.

 

[pingli-nywee]

The only female Field Marshal in the ranks of the Mau Mau.

Field Marshal Muthoni Wa Kirima.

 

[pingli-nywee]

All hail the Messiah!

21st October, 1956. Ill, shot, captured, disarmed, surrounded by armed colonial forces but still handcuffed in a hospital bed. Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi Waciuri. Liberator of his people, martyr, man of men, the genius behind the armed resistance of the Mau Mau. R.I.P., in the arms of the Almighty Mwenee-Nyaga.

 

[Naby Keita]

All hail the Messiah!

Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi Waciuri. Liberator of his people, martyr, man of men, the genius behind the armed resistance of the Mau Mau. R.I.P, in the arms of the Almighty Mwenee-Nyaga.

Wacha wee

 

[pingli-nywee]

Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi Waciuri at his trial in Nyeri. Where he was sentenced to hang, by the colonialist, on 18th of February, 1957.

 

[Kingfisher]

Field Marshals na bunduki za mbao [emoji106]

 

[pingli-nywee]

Wepons found in the possesion of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi during his capture. Drawing expertise from weapons specialist who were now members of the Mau Mau, and who formerly fought in the WorldWar1, under the African Rifles Regiment. In Myanmar, formerly Burma and in battles in N.Africa. The Mau Mau was able to be well kitted, weapons wise, that the British resorted to dropping numerous amount of bombs from their warplanes, into the forests in the Aberdare ranges and around Mt. Kenya.

 

[pingli-nywee]

Standing tall, years later.

The Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi Waciuri monument at the intersection of Mama Ngina Street and Dedan Kimathi Street in Nairobi.

Former President Emillio Mwai Kibaki unveiling the Dedan Kimathi monument on 18th of February 2007.

 

[pingli-nywee]

Rastafarians pay tribute to Dedan Kimathi, at his monument on Dedan Kimathi Street, Nairobi. Don't ask me what is going on around here. I might have a vague idea, but am really not your guy. 😀

 

[Naby Keita]

huyu mwizi nae ni maulidimaulidi

 

[pingli-nywee]

If you thought Jamaicans invented the art of wearing dreadlocks to drive a particular point home, or for whatever individual reasons. Wait till you hear that their inspiration was the Mau Mau in the 1950's. The Mau Mau was said to have used their treadmark dreadlocks to instill fear on the whiteman. Others say that the dreadlocks was part of the Mau Mau oath, which they all took to bind them together, and to their cause. Well the Jamaicans took it up from the Mau Mau and popularised it.

The Journey Of Dreadlocks From The Forests Of Kenya To The Corporate Offices In America