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nyumbani
November 07, 2006

SHORT PROPAGANDA CLIP ON THE ARREST OF MAU MAU'S CHARISMATIC LEADER FIELD MARSHALL DEDAN KIMATHI A TRUE KENYAN HERO. Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (truly, Kimathi wa Waciuri), Field Marshal, (October 31,...

SHORT PROPAGANDA CLIP ON THE ARREST OF MAU MAU'S CHARISMATIC LEADER FIELD MARSHALL DEDAN KIMATHI A TRUE KENYAN HERO.
Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (truly, Kimathi wa Waciuri), Field Marshal, (October 31, 1920 -- February 18, 1957) was a Kenyan rebel leader who fought against British colonization in Kenya in the 1950s. He was convicted and executed by the British colonial government.
Kimathi was born in Thenge Village Tetu division, Nyeri District. At the age of fifteen, he joined the local primary school, Karuna-ini, where he perfected his English skills. He would later use those language skills to write extensively before and during the uprising. He was a Debate Club member in his school. He was deeply religious and carried a Bible regularly. He worked for the forest department collecting tree seeds to help him foot his school bill. He later joined Tumutumu CMS School for his secondary learning, but dropped out for lack of funds.
He dabbled with several jobs but never felt fully settled. Notable was his enlisting with the army to fight in the Second World War in 1941. However, in 1944, he was expelled for misconduct. In 1946, he became a member of the Kenya African Union. In 1949, he started teaching at his old school Tumutumu, but left the job within two years.
He became radically political in 1950. He involved himself with the Mau Mau, and later that year administered the oath of the Mau Mau, making him a marked man. He joined Forty Group, the militant wing of the defunct Kikuyu Central Association in 1951. He was elected as a local branch secretary of KAU in Ol' Kalou and Thomson's Falls area in 1952. He was briefly arrested in that same year, but escaped with the help of local police. This marked the beginning of his violent uprising. He formed Kenya Defence Council to co-ordinate all forest fighters in 1953.
In 1956, he was finally arrested with one of his wives, Wambui. He was sentenced to death by a court presided by Chief Justice Sir Kenneth O'Connor, while he was in a hospital bed at the General Hospital Nyeri. In the early morning of February 18, 1957 he was executed by the colonial government. The hanging took place at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison [4]. He was buried in an unmarked grave, and his burial site remains unknown.
Kimathi is viewed by many Kenyans as a national hero. Many towns in Kenya have a building or street named after him. On February 18, 2007, on the anniversary of the day he was executed, a bronze statue of Kimathi was unveiled in Nairobi city center. Kimathi, clad in military regalia, holds a rifle on the right hand and a dagger on the other, symbolizing the last weapons he held in his struggle.
Statue of Dedan Kimathi in Nairobi Kenya
Kimathi was married to Mukami Kimathi. Among their children are sons Wachiuri and Maina and daughters Nyawira and Wanjugu [5].
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he was our hero ,

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the two traitors later lived in abject poverty for betraying the Mau Mau freedom hero...

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DEFEAT US? you're white ass has been kicked out of every country you tried to take over!! KENYA..SOUTH AFRICA..TANZANIA..UGANDA..JAPA N..PAKISTAN..INDIAN! you fuckers were whack! couldn't stand groung eh? you little white pussies! and now look what hapened to your country..the most feared youth in britain is the AFRICANS..TAMILS..INDIANS..PAK ISTANIS and AFGHANS..ALL A PRODUCT OF YOUR INVASION INTO OUR LAND! fuck ya'l white pussies! WE TAKIN OVER..CITY AT A TIME!!

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africa hakuna matata mogadishu hakuna matata Karibu Lamu yeto hakuna matata

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hahahah black chimpanzee we whites are subjugating you apes and we will always enjoy whilst you eat roots

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lol you are a funny character I like been a ape if u think thats a bad thing, we apes kicked you out of our country despite all the advanced weapons ya`ll had.

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Hahaha stupid white ape. If you've "defeated" us then why are you suffering under Mugabe? We don't need and NEVER needed you white subhumans we simply don't need Mugabe.

You whites will die off like the vermin you are (possibly the only good thing your master Mugabe brought the world). DEATH TO WHITES IN ZIMBABWE.

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