WHEN MWARIAMA WENT TO SEE KENYATTA DISGUISED AS A PRIEST - CURATOR OF MWARIAMA MUSEUM, SIMON NTURURU
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Contrary to some views, the Mau Mau were not opposed to the acquisition of modern education. The curator of Mwarima Heritage Center, a museum established in honour of Gen. Mwariama, speaks about this with the authority of lived experience. Although he is the son of a colonial civil servant, an agricultural extension worker charged with forcing Africans to build terraces on their land to prevent soil erosion, he was sympathetic to Mau Mau and wanted to remain in the forest to fight but he was ordered by Gen. Mwariama and his soldiers to go back to school and study hard so that he could liberate Kenya. Clearly, fighters were aware of their limitations, including little or no education, which was necessary to govern a modern state. This wise decision lives in the person of Ntururu, who later on became a teacher and education administrator now serves to perpetuate the memory of the freedom fighters. Ntururu also tells of the death of Gen Mwariama, a no-nonse Mau Mau leader who feared nobody who was once accused of smoking in court, and of the relationship between Gen Baimungi, Gen. Mwariama, and Gen Kimathi, and of Jackson Angaine, the postcolonial government minister for land and the efforts by veterans to acquire land. He also explains the importance of Mwariama museum.
the forgotten dreaded/fearless fighter from meru,the highest ranking maumau fighter who survived the war without being killed or captured by the colonialists...continue resting in peace rasta 😢
Can you also feature General Ruku from Meru and how he started the whole MAU MAU movement . We wouldn't have come this far without him.
We have heard a lot about Gen Ruku. He died early in the war but he was quite a strategist. He procured arms from Ethiopia. We shall definitely do a documentary when we get enough information.
@@maumauchronicles4296 we truly appreciate the work you are doing . God bless!!
@@maumauchronicles4296impressive kindly tell us how this was done. Our Mau Mau heroes bravery and tact deserve to be heard
Very resourceful
Thank you.
Next episode plz we wanna know the history of general baimungi marete.
Asante sana! You may also point us in the right direction. Do you know anyone who knows a lot about Gen Baimungi?
@@maumauchronicles4296 His family still exists
I usually feel that after independence, the Mau Mau were sidelined so quickly and given no recognition and reverence for their sacrifices, or even sufficient resources to see them thrive.
Kindly also tell us about how the offsprings/descendants of Mau Mau are fairing.
I feel the philosopher Nietszche's way of looking at this is wholesome! Quote: "Man and the civilization project are both the work of nature" and, like the bible, which is also a philosophical guide to life, calls us to the saying that "the kingdom of heaven is for those who are like children ie those who are prepared to happily live between the walls of the past and the future, those with nothing of the past to disown or a future to escape to.There is nothing new under the sun. I am a product of the Mau Mau, but kenyan history does not commence then. The people at the time had their history and all the way down to when history was verbal, not recorded and even all down to when man lived the moment which is a beast way of living; but it was still an experience for those who live that time. Now, there are people cashing on teaching other mindfulness. Living the moment without fogging ones mind with the future live alone the past that was a moment in time. Wahenga wanasema " maji yakishaa mwaika hayawezi tena kuzoleka. Know the history, but don't let it determine your future.
We can't argue with that...
Agreed we need a MWARIAMA monument. That man told the truth coz he did not just speak but he acted. What a soldier! You should have been recognised more 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Agreed!
Thank you very much mzee, for your devotion to the conservation of this history.
There is something i feel though, you left out of your narration of Mwariama's arrest. From an alternative and credible source, I am informed that Mwariama retained his dreadlocks at Túúntú, but after a few days in Túúntú he was moved to Kamiti. You didn't mention this part.
On the way to kamiti, in a landrover, is where his locks were trimmed. At Kamiti he waited to be rescued by his very trusted political father, Jomo Kenyatta, but eventually gave up, and invited death.
He refused to eat for so long he was going to die, and that's when Kentatta responded. He had to be fed intravenously, to get him back into a functional body, and then Kenyatta had him released.
Never heard this interesting version.
I believe hes being taped for publication. I have noted from the onset, Maumaus were denied their inheritance... Land and employment. Did their children benefit? This is what is destroying Kenya. They sacrificed themselves to liberate the country. Blood sacrifice was not recognized. What Kenya is going through is as a resultbof Mau msu curses. They are all dead. Wacha kazi ianze.
They expected to be given land for the sake of their descendants and themselves. Most died poor
Uyu mzee hajielewi
Wewe umetumwa na nia yako ni mbaya.
Pumbav iblis kwenda kabisa shetan