[Photo: REUTERS/Edwin Waita]Nearing 100, Gitu Wa Kahengeri clearly remembers the day when, as a prisoner of Kenya’s colonial occupier Britain, he wanted to die. They were set up to jail activists and sympathisers during the Mau Mau uprising of 1952-1960, in which Kahengeri, born in the 1920s and a Secretary General of the independence movement’s Veterans Association, participated. “We must live with, and honour, the U.K. and Kenya’s shared history, and the pains and joys that it has brought. “Thinking we can continue to live without understanding what truly happened is an injustice.” Kenyan museum, Mau Mau fighter shed light on British colonial abuses Nearing 100, Gitu Wa Kahengeri clearly remembers the day when, as a prisoner of Kenya’s colonial occupier Britain, he wanted to die. They were set up to jail activists and sympathisers during the Mau Mau uprising of 1952-1960, in which Kahengeri, born in the 1920s and a Secretary General of the independence movement’s Veterans Association, participated.

Source: Standard Digital July 10, 2020 13:06 UTC