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Post by mank on Apr 14, 2013 9:34:36 GMT 3
Who knew? I who speaks for him who is silent Would get this chance! I got a request to the son of Jomo ... no, not a request ... its a word from them who went before us. Open your big eyes ... man is ready to spell it message ... lets build a monument for Mwariama (he who speaks truth) in Nairobi, Meru town, Nyeiri (Ruring'u in particular), and more predominantly in the Meru National Park (Meru County, take this up) and Mt. Kenya! www.flickr.com/photos/maumauhistory/7642691628/in/photostream/ |
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Post by mank on Apr 14, 2013 9:36:30 GMT 3
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Post by mank on Apr 14, 2013 9:49:05 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 14, 2013 14:39:36 GMT 3
Who knew? I who speaks for him who is silent Would get this chance! I got a request to the son of Jomo ... no, not a request ... its a word from them who went before us. Open your big eyes ... man is ready to spell it message ... lets build a monument for Mwariama (he who speaks truth) in Nairobi, Meru town, Nyeiri (Ruring'u in particular), and more predominantly in the Meru National Park (Meru County, take this up) and Mt. Kenya! www.flickr.com/photos/maumauhistory/7642691628/in/photostream/Mank, this heroic man seems to have just disappeared into thin air. Even as a young man I do not remember a symposium over him at the UON. What do stories at home say he was at after independence? and the photo with Jomo? Has there been a kind of damnatio memoriae? ;D at work here! He is a legend! On his 100th birthday I would suggest a ksh. anniversary currency note be released to commemorate him! |
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Post by mank on Apr 14, 2013 19:14:06 GMT 3
Who knew?
I who speaks for him who is silent
Would get this chance!
I got a request to the son of Jomo ... no, not a request ... its a word from them who went before us. Open your big eyes ... man is ready to spell it message ... lets build a monument for Mwariama (he who speaks truth) in Nairobi, Meru town, Nyeiri (Ruring'u in particular), and more predominantly in the Meru National Park (Meru County, take this up) and Mt. Kenya!
www.flickr.com/photos/maumauhistory/7642691628/in/photostream/
Has there been a kind of damnatio memoriae? ;D at work here! He is a legend! On his 100th birthday I would suggest a ksh. anniversary currency note be released to commemorate him!Jakaswanga, Its a painful story. The man did not disappear into thin air. He was imprisoned in Kamiti, ati for "being in possession of an illegal gun". The whole thing was staged. It was all in a systematic plan to dethrone the mau mau from glory ... and you know that succeeded a great dea! Mwariama was arrested on orders from Nairobi (logic says they were from Njonjo), when he insisted on having a guest of the mau mau address his men while they were holed up in a camp (a rehabilitation camp .... yeah, because in the mind of the government they needed to be held somewhere in between the bushes and society so they could learn to live with people ... then at that time they could be integrated with society .... that's how it was argued, but the truth is that the men had been cheated out of land .... so they had nothing to go back to!). Well, while at the camp Mwariama received a guest (I suppose from another Mau Mau brigade), and allowed the guest to address his fellow IDPs! At that time such an address would amount to an "illegal meeting." It turns out there was a watching eye on camp for Nairobi, and he and Mwariama exchanged words ... Mwariama's point was that they did not fight in the forest to be told when to speak or shut up. So the address went on. Then the Nairobi guy made his call, and was instructed to arrest Mwariama. The next day the Field Marshal was quickly sentenced to life imprisonment for what he learned to be "possession of an illegal gun." Soon he was on the way to Kamiti, and by the time he got there, the goons had shaved his locks! The man was confident that Kenyatta, the man he had had so much faith in, and so much respect for, would get him out of that place. But all Kenyatta would do is assure him that he (the big man) would get him out when "those who arrested you" were not watching. It is from that comment by Kenyatta that it was apparent that the arrest was Njonjo's! Kenyatta was not quick to deliver ... or perhaps the arresting authority was still watching, I don't know! While at Kamiti Mwariama learned that his co-patriot, General Baimungi, had been killed. That's when the general plan became clear to Mwariama. He realized that they were being systematically finished! After that Field Marshal went on a hunger strike. It is unclear why they chose to keep him alive by feeding him intravenously when he had gone frail and was on the verge of death. After that Kenyatta came through and ordered his release! Then the man came home to abject poverty. The biggest reward to him, by the country he fought for, was the right to buy a few acres of land through a loan program for the Mau Mau. Later he would be given the office of a chief which he shortly resigned from most likely due to boredom. He died in early 90s of cobra venom - after he sucked blood from someone in a bush-style snake bite first aid. |
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Post by mank on Apr 14, 2013 19:25:58 GMT 3
About being a legend, you have to know that this man was of the same esteem as Dedan Kimathi. In fact I remember reading a story by the senior officer (I can't keep their titles straight) behind Kimathi's capture, that he had been tracking Mwariama when he was called off on news that there were more reliable leads to Kimathi's whereabouts. So he decamped from the Nyambenes and the Meru National park to the Aberdares!
As soon as Dedan Kimathi was captured, the white government started driving around the Mau Mau country showing giraffe bones and claiming it was Mwariama's! With Dedan Kimathi captured and his execution planned it was only Mwariama that needed to be "eliminated" and the Mau Mau spirit would be dead! That's how the criminal government viewed it.
Once they showed giraffe bones enough, then the johnies took to the air home. ... they had won the war, so they thought! They were to come back a few years later after Mau Mau activity under the command of Mwariama called their bluff.
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Post by mank on Apr 16, 2013 6:00:45 GMT 3
Who knew?
I who speaks for him who is silent
Would get this chance!
I got a request to the son of Jomo ... no, not a request ... its a word from them who went before us. Open your big eyes ... man is ready to spell it message ... lets build a monument for Mwariama (he who speaks truth) in Nairobi, Meru town, Nyeiri (Ruring'u in particular), and more predominantly in the Meru National Park (Meru County, take this up) and Mt. Kenya!
www.flickr.com/photos/maumauhistory/7642691628/in/photostream/
Has there been a kind of damnatio memoriae? ;D at work here! He is a legend! On his 100th birthday I would suggest a ksh. anniversary currency note be released to commemorate him!The idea of a commemorative currency mint sounds great! Actually a non-circulating coin would be a great idea. ... GK might even be pleased to realize that it can squeeze more blood out of the gallant soldiers even after all it has squeezed out of them already! A non-circulating coin can fetch the treasury a great deal. |
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Post by mank on Mar 19, 2018 7:45:29 GMT 3
Who knew? I who speaks for him who is silent Would get this chance! I got a request to the son of Jomo ... no, not a request ... its a word from them who went before us. Open your big eyes ... man is ready to spell it message ... lets build a monument for Mwariama (he who speaks truth) in Nairobi, Meru town, Nyeiri (Ruring'u in particular), and more predominantly in the Meru National Park (Meru County, take this up) and Mt. Kenya! www.flickr.com/photos/maumauhistory/7642691628/in/photostream/Nuhwahn remember |
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