Tag: Dedan Kimathi

The Kenya Levellation Army, one of the more elusive and formidable forces of the Mau Mau Uprising, was instrumental in ...

It was at Kahigaini, in Tetu, Nyeri County, that the legendary Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, leader of the Mau Mau ...

On October 21, 1956, British colonial officer Ian Stuart McWalter Henderson met Dedan Kimathi, the legendary Mau Mau leader, in ...

On this day in history, Dedan Kimathi Waciuri, the fearless leader of the Mau Mau rebellion, was hanged at dawn ...

In the early hours of February 18, 1957, the gallows at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison bore witness to one of ...

In the annals of Kenya's fight for independence, the Naivasha Police Station raid stands out as one of the most ...

Among the prominent leaders of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, General Mbaria Kaniu stands out as a figure of ...

General Kahiu Itina, whose name translates to "General Knife in the Butt," earned his moniker through his ruthless tactics against ...

In August 1953, at the historic Mwathe meeting in Nyandarwa Forest, the Kenya Defense Council led by Dedan Kimathi formed ...