Innocious_empire

Political and history

Threads as told in books and documentaries.

History cures the heart.

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History is not there for you to like or dislike. It's there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because you are less likely to repeat it. History is not yours to erase, it belongs to all of us.

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Them cheap to maintain and easy to manipulate, and are more obedient and aggressive than adults. The recruitment of children as soldiers is however a serious violation of children's rights.

The end.

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Child soldiers who helped Museveni come to power by overthrowing Obote. Children, both girls and boys were kidnapped and made to fight for Museveni's guerilla force NRA.They constituted what was known as " jeshi la kadogo"...1/

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and made to go back to school. While others went on to hold senior positions in Museveni's military and government, others are still languishing in poverty in their adulthood.
Rebel groups always recruit children because they consider...4/

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wrongly.The MAU MAU history is very limited in our schools.A closer look at history curriculum in schools reveals that MAU*2 history is given three pages shallow explanation in form three, while the"nationalists"are given a whole topic that describes their "good" deeds for kenya.

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THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF MAU MAU

Jomo Kenyatta, the young man who fled Kiambu at the onset of the World War II to avoid conscription, had a sharp mind and exploited the earliest opportunity that came his way and he had a knack for spotting trouble..1/

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The history of general Baimungi Marete who took over the leadership of Mau Mau following the death of Dedan Kimathi was & is still to date an ignored one. Going through history books taught in our schools, there is no mention of the Meru group because they irked the govt..35/