Beautiful conversation, very educative. Hunger as a weapon was very effective. To this day i see how the time that is dedicated to family sustenance and protection has totally been diminished.
But God helped ou parents survive coz mye father and mother grew up there but the older kids were innovative my uncle told me he used to collect some type of leaves and make some kind of fake tea four the younger kids Akina my mum and that time my uncle was still less than 10
Asante sana Professor for your enchanting recollection of your childhood experiences during a time of war. We appreciate you and all others who have sacrificed their time, effort and resources to bring us these mesmerizing stories about your struggle for uhuru. If I'm not mistaken, you were also involved in another struggle. Later after independence? How I wish you could share that experience as well...
Very authentic. At least now I know the meaning of "Kamatimū"😊. This was the time Kikuyus lost their culture. The boys grew up without good men as role models. Kudos prof.
This is very educative and we appreciate you for your time and effort 👏🏿👏🏿. A big THANK YOU to the guest for taking their time to tell their story✍🏿🕒✊🏿🤝🏿🖤. Feel honoured🙏🏿 #maumau
Im filled with goosebumps,those stories are exactly as my grandma would narrate,my dad is now 70 and he was the last born so his elder brothers together with my grandfather were in the forest,,,,rwathia my home really suffered during this colonial error,my dad attended mihuti primary, whenever i visit this place im saddened by the lack of development in this area,,,it has the most beautiful landscapes but still there are areas with no electricity 🥺
Villageization is concentration camps. Did the breakup of family structure where men had to go hide in the forest while some were held in concentration camps have an effect on the family breakdown we’re experiencing today? There’s a lot of single mothers especially in Kikuyu community could this be a trauma linked to family disruptions caused by these colonialists?
Yes, that was the genesis of the family dysfunction we see in the Gikuyu family structure today. That, and alcoholism, although I've also read in another document by a certain researcher that alcoholism has its roots decades earlier when our ancestors were kicked off their land and forced to work on the European-owned plantations. Alcohol, especially among men, was used as a form of self medication. Its high time we as a community started talking about these issues.
You're very right . Do you know there is no any other tribe that the men( children generally) are so proud to be called by their mother's name. Kamarū wa Wanjiru, Rugwīti wa Njeri etc. it's was and still is as a result of trauma.😔
The more I understand the Mau Mau structure, the more amazed I become. This was an insurgency that was very well planned and organized. Thank you so much for the video.
This is very educational. Just a thought, does anyone else recognize that the way the villages were fenced were exactly like the Jews in Hitler Germany?. The same thing was done to our people after the second world war.
The colonialists brought lessons from two main wars: The Anglo-Boer war in South African and the totality of the events during the World War II. It is therefore hardly surprising that the treatment of the Africans has parallels with the holocaust.
AFricans are the TRUE ISRAELITES in the Tanakh it talks about those that stayed in Jerusalem were invaded by Assyrian Armies, who would bring their god and relegion to them AND the remainder aka younger posterity would go INTO captivity in Far Away land - vision given to our great great great grandfather Abraham.
It is good..what the chronicles are doing educating us on the actual story of what really happened to our people..and bringing in the elderly who were affected and involved to explain the realities then....the suffering was immense... I wish ngugi wathiongo would be in this interview ...and many more of the old scholars then.. I appreciate and commend you for this endeavor to let us hear the truth ...kenya freedom was like no other....it was like nazi germany...
Villiagelization is a soft term. Those were concentration camps modeled after the Nazì concentration camps. The British had brought Germans in rift Valley to help them crash Nandi rebellion. Those tactics were what the British had seen employed by Nazis against the Jews in Europe.
Thanks Prof for the insightful presentation .Just wondering if our political scientists have done any research on the psychosocial impact of villagization on mothers and children.
Wevhave. Right to sue enmass for this hunger and attrocities by the British , because all our parents were raised in this concentration camps us whose parents were born inthe 40s and 30s
I hope that we can understand that villages were a creation of the colonialists to distabilise the locals. Otherwise we lived self sufficient lives in homesteads until we were disrupted and disempowered. I hope that we understand that refugee camps are not any different from these collonial villages/ concentration camps. also, city estates are no different from concentration camps. How strange that we have now willingly accepted to be disempowered; everytime we abandon our homesteads in the rural areas to live in cities and refugee camps we give up our self sufficiency. wake up dear children of the soil and lests return to our indigenous way of life and traditions
Those wazungus were misleading some of us terribly and also causing hatred among us. Diving and rule. I wouldn't think they were agents of the evil one. Twitikie Njamba ii hinya, MUMBI WA IGURU NA THI. He has been managing this country from before independence and after. Mwene Nyaga arotugirio ni ithui ithuothe. Hallelu YAH!
There was a war council in mau mau led by kimathi. He supported the policy of having women fighters in the forest. Gen Kago opposed this and was arrested. He was tried by the war council and sentenced to death. His men fought the war council and released him. He took off with 200 men to fight out independently
General Kago was injured in a firefight. He urged his mbutu or batallion to move on and leave him behind. The white soldiers discovered him. He was burned alive in a bonfire
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE OF KENYA WAS HORRIBLE. SOON KING CHARLES IS COMING TO VISIT KENYA COLONIAL COUNTRY. WONDER HOW FREEDOM FIGHTERS WILL BE REMEMBERED.
Much respect to those courageous freedom fighters. Without you, Kenya could not be made free. Rest in power, warriors.
Beautiful conversation, very educative. Hunger as a weapon was very effective. To this day i see how the time that is dedicated to family sustenance and protection has totally been diminished.
But God helped ou parents survive coz mye father and mother grew up there but the older kids were innovative my uncle told me he used to collect some type of leaves and make some kind of fake tea four the younger kids Akina my mum and that time my uncle was still less than 10
Asante sana Professor for your enchanting recollection of your childhood experiences during a time of war.
We appreciate you and all others who have sacrificed their time, effort and resources to bring us these mesmerizing stories about your struggle for uhuru.
If I'm not mistaken, you were also involved in another struggle. Later after independence? How I wish you could share that experience as well...
Very authentic. At least now I know the meaning of "Kamatimū"😊. This was the time Kikuyus lost their culture. The boys grew up without good men as role models. Kudos prof.
You are most welcome
This is very educative and we appreciate you for your time and effort 👏🏿👏🏿.
A big THANK YOU to the guest for taking their time to tell their story✍🏿🕒✊🏿🤝🏿🖤.
Feel honoured🙏🏿
#maumau
Im filled with goosebumps,those stories are exactly as my grandma would narrate,my dad is now 70 and he was the last born so his elder brothers together with my grandfather were in the forest,,,,rwathia my home really suffered during this colonial error,my dad attended mihuti primary, whenever i visit this place im saddened by the lack of development in this area,,,it has the most beautiful landscapes but still there are areas with no electricity 🥺
These stories are real. The real deal. Underline that.
general kago was a dreaded fearless fighter from murang'a, a world war 2 veteran, one of the braviest fighters that KLFA produced...
As our people say, he was as hot as the soup from the bones of a thin goat!
Just discovered the Kikuyu name for an undercover agent " komerera" i love it.
Villageization is concentration camps. Did the breakup of family structure where men had to go hide in the forest while some were held in concentration camps have an effect on the family breakdown we’re experiencing today? There’s a lot of single mothers especially in Kikuyu community could this be a trauma linked to family disruptions caused by these colonialists?
Yes, that was the genesis of the family dysfunction we see in the Gikuyu family structure today. That, and alcoholism, although I've also read in another document by a certain researcher that alcoholism has its roots decades earlier when our ancestors were kicked off their land and forced to work on the European-owned plantations. Alcohol, especially among men, was used as a form of self medication. Its high time we as a community started talking about these issues.
You're very right . Do you know there is no any other tribe that the men( children generally) are so proud to be called by their mother's name. Kamarū wa Wanjiru, Rugwīti wa Njeri etc. it's was and still is as a result of trauma.😔
The more I understand the Mau Mau structure, the more amazed I become. This was an insurgency that was very well planned and organized. Thank you so much for the video.
Professor of all times 🙏
This is very educational. Just a thought, does anyone else recognize that the way the villages were fenced were exactly like the Jews in Hitler Germany?. The same thing was done to our people after the second world war.
The colonialists brought lessons from two main wars: The Anglo-Boer war in South African and the totality of the events during the World War II. It is therefore hardly surprising that the treatment of the Africans has parallels with the holocaust.
AFricans are the TRUE ISRAELITES in the Tanakh it talks about those that stayed in Jerusalem were invaded by Assyrian Armies, who would bring their god and relegion to them AND the remainder aka younger posterity would go INTO captivity in Far Away land - vision given to our great great great grandfather Abraham.
Greetings from Paris and from global Black family. I 've got tears in my eyes at earing this testimony.
It is good..what the chronicles are doing educating us on the actual story of what really happened to our people..and bringing in the elderly who were affected and involved to explain the realities then....the suffering was immense...
I wish ngugi wathiongo would be in this interview ...and many more of the old scholars then..
I appreciate and commend you for this endeavor to let us hear the truth ...kenya freedom was like no other....it was like nazi germany...
Thank you. Always return for more!
Villiagelization is a soft term. Those were concentration camps modeled after the Nazì concentration camps. The British had brought Germans in rift Valley to help them crash Nandi rebellion. Those tactics were what the British had seen employed by Nazis against the Jews in Europe.
True. These were detention camps. The whole of Mt. Kenya region was under detention.
Thanks Prof for the insightful presentation .Just wondering if our political scientists have done any research on the psychosocial impact of villagization on mothers and children.
I'm congolese born. Keep educating us.
Thank you we need this history💪🏾❤️🙏🏾
i like learning about history
Good to know!
Wevhave. Right to sue enmass for this hunger and attrocities by the British , because all our parents were raised in this concentration camps us whose parents were born inthe 40s and 30s
I hope that we can understand that villages were a creation of the colonialists to distabilise the locals. Otherwise we lived self sufficient lives in homesteads until we were disrupted and disempowered. I hope that we understand that refugee camps are not any different from these collonial villages/ concentration camps. also, city estates are no different from concentration camps. How strange that we have now willingly accepted to be disempowered; everytime we abandon our homesteads in the rural areas to live in cities and refugee camps we give up our self sufficiency. wake up dear children of the soil and lests return to our indigenous way of life and traditions
your statement is very accurate, i wish more young people would learn this and understand.
A good movie should follow
Creative memoir
Those wazungus were misleading some of us terribly and also causing hatred among us. Diving and rule. I wouldn't think they were agents of the evil one. Twitikie Njamba ii hinya, MUMBI WA IGURU NA THI. He has been managing this country from before independence and after. Mwene Nyaga arotugirio ni ithui ithuothe. Hallelu YAH!
Tukiuge atia?
There was a war council in mau mau led by kimathi. He supported the policy of having women fighters in the forest. Gen Kago opposed this and was arrested. He was tried by the war council and sentenced to death. His men fought the war council and released him. He took off with 200 men to fight out independently
It we're better also to be told I'm Gikuyu language
In Gikuyu language
Muthungu niwe caitani gutiri caitani ungi wi irima ria mwaki. Nainyui ngui cia nyakeru cia kuherithia andu anyu murotoma muhuke.
One of the forgotten massacres of Mau Mau.
True. The Rwathia Massacre remains largely unremarked and un-researched.
What the British and America calls him human rights......
It's during chief kiratu times that circumcision of boys was banned fr several years
General Kago was injured in a firefight. He urged his mbutu or batallion to move on and leave him behind. The white soldiers discovered him. He was burned alive in a bonfire
How I wish the ropes we used in totality.
Men and women of those days were wiser.
This discrimination is the same one still going on against Gema,thats why the county commissioners are closing our gikuyu worship centers
Mbeca cia kuherithia mugikuyu is from mzungus until mugikuyu erigwo na aninwo biu. Agikuyu magure micinga please. Tigai guoya.
@@cytkl makigura Ku na other makuragwo kuraihu na mihaka ? Nutuchanukire ta mau tumenye guichuhia
Anyone whose worship center is closed should go to court. This has to stop
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE OF KENYA WAS HORRIBLE. SOON KING CHARLES IS COMING TO VISIT KENYA COLONIAL COUNTRY. WONDER HOW FREEDOM FIGHTERS WILL BE REMEMBERED.
Home guard or ngati
Kenya we are a confused society
Yes especially the mungu mzungu shetani worship as jesus is a mental illness
@@cytklvery true.
This explains so much family tension lmao. I never knew freedom fighter/homeguard dynamic
Cheating, is it *AGE*
You are out of your mind.