Britain hanged Dedan Kimathi in 1957 and buried him where no one could find him.
Kimathi led the Mau Mau fighters, who fought British colonial rule in Kenya. He was captured on 21 October 1956, sentenced on 19 November, and hanged at Kamiti prison near Nairobi on 18 February 1957. He was 36.
The colonial authorities put his body in an unmarked grave inside the prison. The likely reason was to stop Kenyans from turning it into a shrine.
The test of hiding a grave is whether the person gets forgotten. It failed. Kenya has a Kimathi Street in Nairobi, a Kimathi University of Technology and a Kimathi Stadium in Nyeri. A statue of him stands in Nairobi.
The grave stayed lost. His widow, Mukami, asked for his remains for decades and died in 2023 without them.
In 2019 a foundation said it had identified the site, but gave no details and no exhumation followed. When Nelson Mandela visited Kenya in 1990 and asked to see the grave, nobody could show him.
The grave is hidden. The man is not.
Source: Kenyan government records, Nation Media, The Standard.
@Mzansiawake Low IQ South Africans at it again 😩 worried about what an African man is doing instead of focusing a whole another race, enter their politics. Apartheid really did a number on that country. Oats for brains
Oxford Reform UK has invited Nathan Cofnas, who launched a witch-hunt against Professor Jason Arday and wrote a blog post arguing that, in a meritocracy, Black people would largely be absent from prominent positions outside sports and entertainment, to “discuss DEI and its impact on higher education and academic freedom.”
How despicable and disgusting of @UniofOxford to host the eugenicist at the core of the Prof Jason Arday lynching? In 2026 they are asking if hiring Black and Brown people weakened university. I got out of my sickbed for the @makeitplainorg pod. Watch: https://t.co/BDql7v8ttf
Clearing his name after he’s no longer here to see it.
Rest in peace, Professor Jason Arday. You deserved your flowers while you were still, here. #writing#WritingCommmunity
@SiyandaMvelase@TakuraChamuka lynch and feed you to the pigs like the 2 women in 2024, buried alive or exiled in your own country by white only towns such as Orania. Dumb bush man has no idea who the true threat is, in his home is but celebrates like a crazed being, over the killing of a fellow African
This is what Dr Umar was talking about. Black men don't give black women grace. It doesn't matter how many cocks a white woman has taken, black men will always give her grace. But black women are called hoes and damned for sexual liberation. Two women behaving the same way but receiving different treatment from black men.