Dear Marshal D.K.,
First I must inform you that Nyeri town is under tight curfew and nobody, not even a woman, can go there without a road pass. So, as you can guess, the situation is very bad. It is now very difficult to get or purchase arms or ammunition in Nyeri town. But don’t let this worry you, I will try to get into the town come what may.
At any rate, the piece of cloth you wanted is enclosed. It cost a hundred shillings. I had asked our contacts in Nyeri town to buy it, but they were slow in doing so; so I purchased it myself.
Also enclosed is the medicine for the toothache which you had requested, plus seven rounds of ammunition. We have not received most of the ammunition and other war materials from our contacts in Nyeri town; we are still waiting for them, and we will send them as soon as we receive them. Many of our cadres in Nyeri town are doing a wonderful job for the movement.
The last time I was in the town to pick up some ammunition I met a guerrilla fighter from your home area, and I was told he was a deputy to General Tanganyika. He frightened me at first because he wore the enemy’s uniform.
There is something important I would like to share with you. I hope you won’t mind. As the Supreme Commander of the KLFA armed forces and the leader of the movement, you should be very careful and more disciplined in what you do. Every step you take should be well calculated. In fact, you should always suspect those you meet, including your own relatives. I have noticed that you are very liberal when you are among partisans, specifically the women. According to Gikuyu and Mumbi customs, we don’t disclose our secrets to women, but since the Europeans came women know men’s secrets. I would like you to know that since August 1952, I have never told my secrets to any woman in order to make her happy.
As I have already observed, you have a tendency to talk a lot when you are in the company of partisan women, and I think this is very dangerous. Of course, it is nice to be in the company of women, but we cannot afford that luxury until we have driven these foreign robbers out of our country. In short, what I am trying to say is that discipline and secrecy are our greatest weapons in this unequal war.
Needlessly to say you are the flesh and blood of this struggle, if something happens to you (arrest or death), this movement will definitely collapse.
We had a meeting with homeguard Muhoya who asked us to tell you to surrender to British authorities so that the war would end. He talked about the humanity of the British, and how they wanted this war to end, but we know that all this talk was a ploy to get you arrested and then killed, in order to weaken our people’s determination.
By the way, did you get the letter discussing the Kanyugo affair? How about the money you promised me? When you get some please send it to me. Let me know whether you need a container to put in.
Please send me the books belonging to William Muturi and Henia - I want to read them. I don’t want you to trust the persons whose books I sent you; I am watching them carefully.
Before I conclude this letter, I would like to mention one more thing. The last time I was in Nyeri some compatriots did not want to be associated with me because they were afraid of the enemy. In fact, a few of them ran away when I asked them to help me to carry some war material. This really shocked me.
That is all for now.
Ni Thayu wa Ngai Witu
Colonel Wamugunda
The Dedan Kimathi Papers
Kinyatti, 1987
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As much as they fought for freedom…this is the ugly truth…and Jomo kenyatta was right…and this is still the mindset of kenyan leaders
Jomo Kenyatta ni :meffi: :meffi: for not honouring MAUMAU after we gained independence.
To be sure the war of independence was first and foremost about lands. Self rule came later.
The lands that Maumau were fighting for were left in the hands of white settlers (a polite term for land grabbers). The remaining lands that were surrendered by departing settlers were distributed to homeguards and their children by Jomo Kenyatta and his homeguards friends.
His son has not attempted to do right by the descendants of MAUMAU.
Rest in peace Dedan Kimathi and other gallant MAUMAU soldiers and your helpers
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Wacha ujinga…you already shooting yaself…the way africans have misguided notion of their history…Jk never was gonna allow that cuz he wasnt for violence and two he actually was progressive for a constitution…they literally hid their maumau activities from him and were even okay to kill him…in short if mau was in power we would have been in civil wars among ourselves and with whites…learn your history