For heroes who never made it back home: There are children who grew up without understanding why one chair at family table is empty
In the forests, resistance fighters lived under conditions that belonged to another world. They moved through thick vegetation, depended upon local knowledge, survived hunger and exposure, and carried with them the dream of a Kenya in which Africans would have greater control over their land and political destiny. Among those who became associated with the struggle were figures such as Dedan Kimathi, whose name would later become inseparable from Kenya’s liberation history.
How vestiges of colonialism survive in Kenya through mispronounced English names and words
Names are part and parcel of Kenya’s collective culture, literature history and heritage with history as the common denominator. Some names of Kenyan towns and places, were inspired by economic activities, wars or contact with the colonialists.