HOW JOMO KENYATTA ACQUIRED LAND IN GATUNDU - FORMER MOI-ERA DETAINEE AND ACTIVIST KAMONYE MANJE

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  • Опубліковано 17 бер 2024
  • Former Moi-era detainee, Kamonye Manje, from Gatundu South, is a teacher by profession, having trained at the University of Dar es Salaam which was a bastion of revolutionary ideas at that time. This is where revolutionary luminaries, such as Yoweri Museveni, trained and got exposed to the socialist ideas that sent him to the bush to fighit against the oppressive regimes in Uganda. He was born in 1951, a year before the declaration of the State of Emergency. Kamonye joined the university in 1972 and graduated in 1975. He has taught in various secondary schools, trained teachers, and is currently lecturing in the area of Peace and Conflict at a Kenyan university. While he was too young to have been in the Mau Mau, he was old enough to remember what happened during those years. The Emergency and the colonial world are therefore the world he grew up in and was the only reality he knew as a child. His are the perspectives of a child born in wartime, and are helpful for understanding how war looks like to a child’s brain. As a scholar who grew up during the war in Gatundu South where Jomo Kenyatta hailed, he is peculiarly privileged to talk about the Mau Mau and the independence era from a fresh and unique perspective which is insightful, erudite and at the same time raw! #maumau #africanhistory #kenya #kenyatta

КОМЕНТАРІ • 94

  • @beingwambui729
    @beingwambui729 2 місяці тому +17

    You can tell he broke down when he was talking about his dad in the beginning, he still carries a lot of Trauma. Thank you Mr Kamonye for telling your story cos it's a story that we need to hear, what we learn in schools is not even close to the actual truth. When you get into our past as a people and nation it's clear to understand we as a Nation and People do suffer from Generational Trauma and Historic Trauma. An issue we don't even talk about.

  • @ericthongori1995
    @ericthongori1995 2 місяці тому +10

    This past is very educational to future Generations

  • @MarkGen
    @MarkGen 2 місяці тому +11

    Hii there my former Kahugu-ini School mate. I am Wanyoike Gakunju and your Dad was our teacher. Nice for your recap of those day. Will follow up all your posts. Shukran 👍

  • @bensonmainakamau7527
    @bensonmainakamau7527 2 місяці тому +6

    I like kamonyes eraborative grammar mastery n the experience to breakdown this piece in layman language like me to digest.

  • @georgenene1419
    @georgenene1419 2 місяці тому +6

    These documentations will be very valuable to future generations.they wont fumble for information like us!

  • @kevinkahugu6930
    @kevinkahugu6930 Місяць тому +4

    Indeed it was a glorious fight. A holy struggle even by a triumphant army the KLFA.

  • @adelaidemuraya8615
    @adelaidemuraya8615 2 місяці тому +7

    My husband cousin called Martin WA munyu githiora your age studied in fast tz Univ u r from gatundu am happy my dad was along serving d o I gatundu during Kenyatta's era he was Herman muraya from mangu gatundu North I love your story cos of my background

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому

      On Kamonye's behalf, thank you

    • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
      @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 10 днів тому

      There was Anthony Magu Nyamu also of TZ Univ. He's now deceased but my former prefect in High School.

  • @KamonyeManje
    @KamonyeManje Місяць тому +2

    Yes Wanyoike Gakunju: it may a long time but knew your family. This backgound explains my involvement in the second liberation struggle as a Nyayo Torture Chambers survivor.

    • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
      @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 10 днів тому

      But none of us in English Paper 2 would ever have imagined you were involved in all that clandestine activity. The press astonished us.

  • @gathuamiricho7590
    @gathuamiricho7590 Місяць тому +3

    This channel is a breath of fresh air, kudos

  • @jay-lz6xu
    @jay-lz6xu Місяць тому +1

    You can tell the lever of dissatisfaction of how land and mental injustice happened then and how it still affects us but we have never talked or solved this issue. I believe one day, there shall arise a mosed.

  • @danieln590
    @danieln590 Місяць тому +1

    This is very very educational especially to us young people. Why wouldn't you organise this educational lectures at even primary school levels.

  • @rukuwangaracu
    @rukuwangaracu 2 місяці тому +2

    Great content. Gitu is my relative, thank you. Am a gatundian south as well living in NY

  • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
    @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 12 днів тому +1

    We used to mark English Paper 2 together until he got detained by President Moi.

  • @fusionkim
    @fusionkim Місяць тому +1

    Keep mic closer we are getting some echos and not a very clear sound

  • @user-yi8rp9rs7h
    @user-yi8rp9rs7h 2 місяці тому +5

    Hello MauMau chronicles..would want a merchandise hoodie of your logo ,..do you do them?

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому

      We have noted this request and will move to avail the merchandise.

  • @evansgitonga3046
    @evansgitonga3046 Місяць тому +1

    The question I always ask myself

  • @adelaidemuraya8615
    @adelaidemuraya8615 2 місяці тому +1

    U look fine prof

  • @JesseNgugi-yw7zq
    @JesseNgugi-yw7zq Місяць тому +2

    As a teacher and as a son of a teacher, you have a lot of responsibility to look at the education system in Kenya and see it is flawed. And the entire education system is in chaos, actually it has been in chaos. All teachers I know in Kenya are not only least learned, but equally arrogant and ignorant. They all act with authority but NONE of them was admitted to University.

  • @sohrabtajadin3402
    @sohrabtajadin3402 Місяць тому +2

    Atereere

  • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
    @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 12 днів тому

    Akina Gikang'a walienda wapi with his white Pick Up?

  • @harrietkamau6710
    @harrietkamau6710 2 місяці тому +3

    I like this narration for it clarity, objectivity and factuality. Is it that Kenyatta had lost his piece of land during his detention just other detainees and that he demanded it back from the Governor? I read this from a history book.

    • @trizahmacharia2939
      @trizahmacharia2939 Місяць тому +1

      Kenyatta ain't kenyan so he lost no land coz he didn't hv any,went to settle in gatundu where his wife came from,hv you or do you know any of his family members apart from his brother??

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому

      It is true that Kenyatta's land had been taken by the colonial authorities, just like everyone else', but he increased the size after independence.

    • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
      @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 10 днів тому

      All land in Kenya had become crown land in 1920

  • @adelaidemuraya8615
    @adelaidemuraya8615 2 місяці тому +2

    Wanyoike do you know.stephen ngure.baba late father Raphael guoko

  • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
    @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 12 днів тому +1

    Tbe one on Bildad Kaggia should be allowed to continue with Kaggia himself commenting thriughout

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  10 днів тому

      True. It would have been nice to listen to him in his own words.

    • @SierraKiringi-xi3vp
      @SierraKiringi-xi3vp 10 днів тому

      Please post it in the Gikuyu language. Let Bildad talk uninterrupted please since we can see him talking already in the video.

  • @kuschprince3216
    @kuschprince3216 Місяць тому

    And when he was done in his home land, he moved to the Coast!! They wont enjoy undisturbed for that!!

  • @kirigwi
    @kirigwi Місяць тому +2

    OHMS 😭😭😭

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому +1

      One Hiti Mutunyani Shaitani! (Look at this thieving devilish hyena!)

  • @paulmuigai1153
    @paulmuigai1153 Місяць тому +2

    This information is very accurate. The book " Britain's Gulag" confirms it.

  • @RobertGakumu
    @RobertGakumu 2 місяці тому +3

    lasted the full video! huyo mwalimu is very good for ile lesson ya saa nane 😂😂

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you.

    • @RobertGakumu
      @RobertGakumu 2 місяці тому

      @@maumauchronicles4296 you are welcome. I'm an architectural 3d modeler , and quite passionate about it, especially the cultural aspect of it. if you guys are interested I can help make animations like the village life scenario to better help, tell these stories

  • @adelaidemuraya8615
    @adelaidemuraya8615 2 місяці тому +1

    Imran he studied in the same univ

  • @user-tq9uk6gw3v
    @user-tq9uk6gw3v 2 місяці тому +2

    Jenga Karume, the best thieve of gema Land buying company

  • @humphreymarangu7145
    @humphreymarangu7145 2 місяці тому

    This is trauma misplaced.

  • @francisthuku2802
    @francisthuku2802 Місяць тому +3

    OHMS( onee hiti mutunyani saitani) abrev kali sna😅

  • @moseskamau3800
    @moseskamau3800 Місяць тому

    The audio is crap

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому

      Agreed. We had some technical issues but sound in future interviews will be fine.

  • @trizahmacharia2939
    @trizahmacharia2939 Місяць тому +1

    Watoto wa collaborators ndio wali soma,tafakali hayo😢😢

  • @mwangebriankisari480
    @mwangebriankisari480 Місяць тому

    Poor sound

  • @vonmaina
    @vonmaina Місяць тому

    Hapo 6:37 was it a fart?

  • @WillisOsidha-gr8vy
    @WillisOsidha-gr8vy Місяць тому +1

    Very poor sound

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому

      Yes. We had some technical issues that we couldn't rectify. Please bear with us.

  • @user-tq9uk6gw3v
    @user-tq9uk6gw3v 2 місяці тому

    How can a hyena dance to the party of a lion???????????

  • @okamaus5572
    @okamaus5572 Місяць тому

    This is the biggest thief in Kenyas history. Mashamba from here to rongo 😢

  • @user-tq9uk6gw3v
    @user-tq9uk6gw3v 2 місяці тому +3

    I hate when one swings the chair while expressing this kind of talk

  • @MAINAELIZABETH-qt9jo
    @MAINAELIZABETH-qt9jo Місяць тому +1

    Collaborators sold maumau

  • @wairangu
    @wairangu Місяць тому

    Very poorly conducted interview. It doesn't capture the gist of the story.

    • @maumauchronicles4296
      @maumauchronicles4296  Місяць тому

      You are the odd one out as the views here clearly show.

    • @jay-lz6xu
      @jay-lz6xu Місяць тому

      I agree, you can tell the fambleness that is around his mouth. The muzzle mouth is a reflection of how we are still in psychology sociology economic muzzled.