HOW JOMO KENYATTA ACQUIRED LAND IN GATUNDU - FORMER MOI-ERA DETAINEE AND ACTIVIST KAMONYE MANJE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- Former Moi-era detainee, Kamonye Manje, from Gatundu South, is a teacher by profession, having trained at the University of Dar es Salaam which was a bastion of revolutionary ideas at that time. This is where revolutionary luminaries, such as Yoweri Museveni, trained and got exposed to the socialist ideas that sent him to the bush to fighit against the oppressive regimes in Uganda. He was born in 1951, a year before the declaration of the State of Emergency. Kamonye joined the university in 1972 and graduated in 1975. He has taught in various secondary schools, trained teachers, and is currently lecturing in the area of Peace and Conflict at a Kenyan university. While he was too young to have been in the Mau Mau, he was old enough to remember what happened during those years. The Emergency and the colonial world are therefore the world he grew up in and was the only reality he knew as a child. His are the perspectives of a child born in wartime, and are helpful for understanding how war looks like to a child’s brain. As a scholar who grew up during the war in Gatundu South where Jomo Kenyatta hailed, he is peculiarly privileged to talk about the Mau Mau and the independence era from a fresh and unique perspective which is insightful, erudite and at the same time raw! #maumau #africanhistory #kenya #kenyatta
You can tell he broke down when he was talking about his dad in the beginning, he still carries a lot of Trauma. Thank you Mr Kamonye for telling your story cos it's a story that we need to hear, what we learn in schools is not even close to the actual truth. When you get into our past as a people and nation it's clear to understand we as a Nation and People do suffer from Generational Trauma and Historic Trauma. An issue we don't even talk about.
History is serious business. It can hurt!
Hii there my former Kahugu-ini School mate. I am Wanyoike Gakunju and your Dad was our teacher. Nice for your recap of those day. Will follow up all your posts. Shukran 👍
I am sure Kamonye has noted your remark
These documentations will be very valuable to future generations.they wont fumble for information like us!
They're valuable to us now what you talkin about?
I mean this documentation is valuable
Thank you.
I like kamonyes eraborative grammar mastery n the experience to breakdown this piece in layman language like me to digest.
He is obviously a well-read teacher!
My husband cousin called Martin WA munyu githiora your age studied in fast tz Univ u r from gatundu am happy my dad was along serving d o I gatundu during Kenyatta's era he was Herman muraya from mangu gatundu North I love your story cos of my background
On Kamonye's behalf, thank you
There was Anthony Magu Nyamu also of TZ Univ. He's now deceased but my former prefect in High School.
This past is very educational to future Generations
Agreed!
Yes Wanyoike Gakunju: it may a long time but knew your family. This backgound explains my involvement in the second liberation struggle as a Nyayo Torture Chambers survivor.
But none of us in English Paper 2 would ever have imagined you were involved in all that clandestine activity. The press astonished us.
This channel is a breath of fresh air, kudos
Thank you
Indeed it was a glorious fight. A holy struggle even by a triumphant army the KLFA.
It was a glorious fight!
Great content. Gitu is my relative, thank you. Am a gatundian south as well living in NY
So nice
This is very very educational especially to us young people. Why wouldn't you organise this educational lectures at even primary school levels.
Thank you for the suggestion.
I like this narration for it clarity, objectivity and factuality. Is it that Kenyatta had lost his piece of land during his detention just other detainees and that he demanded it back from the Governor? I read this from a history book.
Kenyatta ain't kenyan so he lost no land coz he didn't hv any,went to settle in gatundu where his wife came from,hv you or do you know any of his family members apart from his brother??
It is true that Kenyatta's land had been taken by the colonial authorities, just like everyone else', but he increased the size after independence.
All land in Kenya had become crown land in 1920
You can tell the lever of dissatisfaction of how land and mental injustice happened then and how it still affects us but we have never talked or solved this issue. I believe one day, there shall arise a mosed.
It is OK to empathise
As a teacher and as a son of a teacher, you have a lot of responsibility to look at the education system in Kenya and see it is flawed. And the entire education system is in chaos, actually it has been in chaos. All teachers I know in Kenya are not only least learned, but equally arrogant and ignorant. They all act with authority but NONE of them was admitted to University.
This is quite a generalisation but your point is taken.
We used to mark English Paper 2 together until he got detained by President Moi.
Good to know!
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Kalenjin here where our grandfathers were sold back a small portion of their land and remaining handed to Kikuyus.
This is not coherent.
The question I always ask myself
This channel gives you all the perspectives.
This information is very accurate. The book " Britain's Gulag" confirms it.
True that! Caroline Elkins did a fantastic job!
Atereere
You have obviously interacted with them!
Tbe one on Bildad Kaggia should be allowed to continue with Kaggia himself commenting thriughout
True. It would have been nice to listen to him in his own words.
Please post it in the Gikuyu language. Let Bildad talk uninterrupted please since we can see him talking already in the video.
Keep mic closer we are getting some echos and not a very clear sound
Noted
Wanyoike do you know.stephen ngure.baba late father Raphael guoko
lasted the full video! huyo mwalimu is very good for ile lesson ya saa nane 😂😂
Thank you.
@@maumauchronicles4296 you are welcome. I'm an architectural 3d modeler , and quite passionate about it, especially the cultural aspect of it. if you guys are interested I can help make animations like the village life scenario to better help, tell these stories
U look fine prof
Sure.
And when he was done in his home land, he moved to the Coast!! They wont enjoy undisturbed for that!!
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OHMS 😭😭😭
One Hiti Mutunyani Shaitani! (Look at this thieving devilish hyena!)
Jenga Karume, the best thieve of gema Land buying company
This information is not from any of the interviewees
Imran he studied in the same univ
Akina Gikang'a walienda wapi with his white Pick Up?
OHMS( onee hiti mutunyani saitani) abrev kali sna😅
Onyango Hana Meno Sita😂😂😂
Can't forget it ever again!
Exactly!
This is trauma misplaced.
Not clear what you mean
Very poor sound
Yes. We had some technical issues that we couldn't rectify. Please bear with us.
The audio is crap
Agreed. We had some technical issues but sound in future interviews will be fine.
Watoto wa collaborators ndio wali soma,tafakali hayo😢😢
Yeah. Very unfair.
Poor sound
I hate when one swings the chair while expressing this kind of talk
You're crazy
He is not here to be loved but pass information
Hiyo tuu ndio ume shika,enyewe we're very different 😂😂😂
Your sense of what is important is strange.
Hapo 6:37 was it a fart?
You are obviously hearing things.
How can a hyena dance to the party of a lion???????????
This is the biggest thief in Kenyas history. Mashamba from here to rongo 😢
Very poorly conducted interview. It doesn't capture the gist of the story.
You are the odd one out as the views here clearly show.
I agree, you can tell the fambleness that is around his mouth. The muzzle mouth is a reflection of how we are still in psychology sociology economic muzzled.
Collaborators sold maumau
Kabisa!