COLONIAL VILLAGES RADICALLY CHANGED AFRICAN SOCIETY - DR. GERISHON MWITI
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2023
- In this interesting - and at times hilarious - interview, Dr. Gerishon Mwiti tells of how he was introduced to Mau Mau as a small boy. Being one of the few literate people from his village, he would be called upon to read newspapers for the mostly illiterate soldiers of the Kenya African Rifles (KAR). He also provides interesting insights into the life of Gen Ruku, Gen. Mwariama and Gen. Baimungi. He explains how racism and the general mistreatment meted out to Africans, unfair taxation, as well as the appropriation of land by colonial authorities constituted the major grievances that led to the war. Dr Mwiti also talks about the impact of the Mau Mau war in the lives of the Africans. And the impact was truly profound; concentration camps popularized shopping, restaurants, and even pit latrines which were uncommon at the time. The war turned African lives upside down and inside out and life was never the same again for the Africans. Dr. Mwiti, a trained civil engineer who went to study and obtain a PhD in leadership from Fuller, hailed from Katheri in Meru, a village that is famous for its contribution to the Mau Mau war. Dr. Mwiti was the author of numerous books, including the INCORRUPTIBLE, a book published by the Nairobi Academic Press about virtuous Kenyans who refuse to be corrupted. Dr. Mwiti was, until his death last year, a leadership consultant. He will also be remembered as one of the drafters of the chapter on national values in the Kenyan constitution (2010). #Kenya #history #maumau #africa #africanindependence
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A history that will never be taught to our youth 😢 so sad that neocolonialism is so alive in Kenya.
I agree with you.
Natia bwinthe, oni old boy of Meru school, 1984- 1987 and only Ugandan student in that school then.
Proud of the Mau- Mau struggle for my Kenyan friends, preserve their ideals and modernize them, ibwega muno.
That’s the little kimeru that I remember.
That is why we want back our lands
As a trained historian i always found it incomplete with historical gaps like I never understood how capitalism economy, money and urbanization was fused to our African way of life ... we never used to sell food. Now i have learned even how Mau mau forest movement actually went to the forest and how east Africans collaborated... GEN RUKU
Thank you. There are many gaps in our history. Many have been deliberately created through acts of omission and commission
RIP Daktari, your insights on the Mau history will always stay with us
mau mau movement resembled the african maroon rebellions in jamaican & haiti
the forest, granted the fighting africans, sovereignty
They took our soon to be leaders to London,to educate them and make them think like the white man. The results is that leaders like Kenyatta(an invented name) were British in their thinking and mannerisms. They even married white women(Kenyatta,Njonjo,Njenga).
The British already knew this would happen as they had practiced it in India back in 1835.Lord Maucaulay wanted "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect".
We lost the moment we accepted the religion which comes with empire. So its kind of rude for someone to call me a Kikuyu. I cant identify as such as long as I was baptized with a foreign name. I was born a slave, given a slave name and slave religion. I have not given my children an English/slave name and I taught them all religions and the theory and principles behind them. We don't go to church. We are the renaissance Africans. I taught them not to derive self value from Race,ethnicity,nationalism,religion,class. However they should no be blind to the world order which places Africans at the bottom of the races and the prejudice and abuse we face.
We learn philosophy together (Greek,Chinese,Indian,persian-arabic.Renaissance). We discuss theories, study history and psychology. I also teach them about the basic stuff that is not taught in schools like modern monetary theory and central banks, relationship between interest rates and inflation/deflation/reccessions, and rentier capitalism. The other rote education they get in school is almost worthless.
I teach them to conquer the world!
Amen. That's my mindset too
Just curious how did they invent the name Kenyatta and what does it mean and why did they need him to change his name?
This colonialism was done to people of African descent all over the world!
FACTS! The leaders returned dark-skinned but with a WHITE MANS MIND. The same phenomenon still exists today - MANY need Mental Emancipation otherwise most will remain enslaved. Indeed the White Man conquered our mental state while we claim freedom with our mouths.
Really loving what you doing for this generation and those to come after us about the forefathers and their sucrifices ...
Asante sana!
Priceless, valuable information and education from a brilliant kenyan patriot. Thank you much 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
Incredible information this is just amazing that this crazy history is in living memory of these brave peoples of the mere agikuyu etc this needs to be put in a documentary for us and our children
It is simply amazing how much they know and how what they know is not adulterated by propaganda since it is based on what they saw or heard at the time.
Can we have an interview with the 90+ year old lady he mentioned in the first 4 minutes? Ty for your work!
That song 'Kungu wiyahi Wa Andu Airu' raises the hairs on the nape of my neck man! Great Interview, and also love that last bit on the Gikuyu Meru Connection
In that song is locked the atmosphere of the struggle. You listen to the song and it sends you back to the 1950s even if you were not yet born.
Amazing video !
The colonial pigs did a similar thing to the Rastafarians, in Jamaica, around the same period. We got our so called independence in 1962: Kenya’s was in ‘63, if I’m not mistaken. However, in Jamaica it was on a much smaller scale compared to what the Kenyans suffered.
Yeah it was introduction to the slavery of cash system we never were a part of
Am kinda lost cos first, mwariama was one of the popular field marshals and any meru person would know him
Secondly, Kenyatta was not for Mau mau. From many records it’s said that he opposed going to war and was about dialogue
So this persons narration is kind of confusing or inaccurate.
Wamungi was shot by police because he didn’t want to give up the rifles and the orders came from Kenyatta. Please get stories from people who either know the facts or have a record of the facts
Kenyatta was a traitor
@@gladyshill1700This is not true. Kenyatta was actually at the center of everything Mau Mau did. What led to the fallout with Mau Mau was his greed. For instance, he fell out with Bildad Kagia because Kagia was opposed to grabbing land. He believed they fought for the average Kenyans to repossess their land. On the other hand, Kenyatta only cared about himself and his friends. Those who rejected his approach were neglected. He would campaign against them and brainwash people into thinking they were traitors. He succeeded doing so with Bildad Kagia when he went to Kandara and started a smearing campaign when Kagia was the MP for Kandara. The people believed his narrative and that's how Kagia was rejected by the people. He did the same with other Mau Mau members who were not buying into his land grabbing and selfish agenda.
@@afrihensionwho was he grabbing land from?
How was he regarded by whites after independence? Did they like him since he was a traitor
Regards from Zim
He was called Kassim Kamau not Mohamend
Mr Mwiti is what Francis Gaitho would term as a ‘boomer’. He sounds like someone specialized in telling half truths so as not to annoy the perpetrators of terror, injustice and proponents of the status quo. Elders like him should by now be honest enough to speak the unedited truths. They even cannot seek removal of symbols of tyranny and oppression in the form of moi and kenyattas monuments right inside our capital opposite the main police station because they are cowards.
Go remove the symbols your self if you are not a coward
Zimbabweean here and just curious
What was the highest population of whites in Kenya before and after independence
Why didn't they settle as much as they did in Rhodesia or South Africa
Thanks
kenya had the highest number of whites because it was not only a colony but a white settler and they numbered more than 100000 after they brought all their soldiers from others colonies from as far as Egypt to fight Maumau that's how other nothern and west african countries got early independent
They were coming in droves in the 40s. But in the 50s the Mau Mau starting killing them, their families, collaborators etc. So Kenya wasn't safe for them
@@programminglanguagestutori9118 Lol. Rhodesia had nearly half a million and that was officially second highest in Africa after South Africa which had and still has millions to this day
Most of The White Settlers returned because of the Mau Mau and IT is said, when Kenyatta was oathed into Presidency, he took MOST of the Settlers land, claiming he would bestow it on the Mau Mau fighters BUT KEPT LARGE PORTIONS OF THE PLANTATIONS FOR HIMSELF. To this Day the Kenyatta Family owns most. A great Betrayal.
They didn't settle, Because, get this, we kicked them out!!
Nyakeru nokinya akamunywo na miri bururi ini ni thu ya mundu muiru tene na tene. You cannot coexist with demons in human form
British Army Base ireka atia Kenya njuurie?
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP USING TERMS THAT WERE LEFT IN AFRICA THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AFRICANS😩. TWO EXAMPLES ARE: TRIBES INSTEAD OF NATIONS AND VILLAGE or VILLAGES. THERE IS NO SUCH A THING CALLED A VILLAGE or VILLAGES IN AFRICA. EACH NATION HAD OWN WORD TO DESCRIBE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE DWELT.😳.
I agree and I would like to know what you suggest we use for village? I agree tribes are what are called nations in Europe. And tribe has a negative connotation when applied to Africans
The same mount Kenya that left it to Nzungu to come and be performing nonsense there!
🤔 1920, in Meru there is a sun that continued for three years and many Meru people died. So climate change gurus and their disciples need to read into history a litttle deeper. There could be something they are missing.
Huh
You mean the sun didn't set for three years or what
@scottishboer3126 No. This narrator is saying that It did not rain for three years, which caused famine for Meru communities. What came out of this is the humanity that was demonstrated by the Kikuyu communities to the Merus in need.
@@winniethuo9736 i too was getting confused thanks
@@winniethuo9736 thanks
@@GrumpyTinashe you already welcome.
Yaani they would kill fellow Mau Mau
War is serious business. No army ever spares traitors. Judging Mau Mau harshly for killing traitors is to judge them by a different, biased, standard.
Traitors are worse than enemies.
Traitors are the reason to why this country is like this full of thieves
Traitors wauliwe mpaka leo. This foolish africans coconuts are worse than mzungus. They suffer from selfhatred and hatred of their own na kuabundu shetani mzungu
He dares not speak of Baimungi Marete lest he annoys his imaginary masters.
I don't think Dr Mwiti leaves out Baimungi deliberately. Mwiti was a survivor of the war, not a veteran. Plus, each witness tell his or her own story. It is impossible for one person to cover the entire story.