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Kenya: Fresh Details Emerge on Dedan Kimathi Execution
Nation, 18 February 2019
As Kenyans marked the 62nd anniversary of the execution of liberation hero Dedan Kimathi Monday, fresh information has emerged about the push and pull on how to kill him after a… Read more »
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Kenya: Mau Mau Hero Dedan Kimathi Still Inspires Hope
Nation, 18 February 2019
On this day at the break of dawn 62 years ago, Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was led from the condemned cells to the execution shed inside Kamiti Maximum Prison, where he was… Read more »
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Kenya: Mau Mau Veterans Hail Dedan Kimathi
Nation, 18 February 2019
Mau Mau veteran Ngatia Mbuthia, 98, was enlisted in the Second World War alongside Dedan Kimathi in 1939. Read more »
Here's How Kenyan Freedom Fighter Dedan Kimathi Was Executed
An extract from a colonial Nyeri district information officer's collection indicates that, as soon as the verdict to die was pronounced, jubilant white settlers poured into the streets demanding that Kimathi be hanged in public "as a lesson and deterrent to the rest of the natives who'd wish to challenge the empire".
A statue of Dedan Kimathi on Kimathi Street in Nairobi. Kimathi became a symbol of British triumph over the Mau Mau.
