Kenyan leader during the Mau Mau Uprising (1920–1957)
Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi
Born
Kimathi wa Waciuri
(1920-10-31)31 October 1920
Nyeri District, Central Province, Kenya
Died
18 February 1957(1957-02-18) (aged 36)
Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Nairobi, British Kenya
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Resting place
Kamiti Maximum Security Prison (Alleged)
Occupation(s)
Teacher, freedom fighter
Organization
Kenya Land and Freedom Army
Known for
Leader of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army
Spouse
Mukami Kimathi
Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (born Kimathi wa Waciuri; 31 October 1920 – 18 February 1957) was the senior military and spiritual leader of the Kikuyu rebels involved in the Mau Mau Uprising. Widely regarded as a revolutionary leader, he led the armed military struggle against the British colonial regime in Kenya in the 1950s until his capture in 1956 and execution in 1957.[1] Kimathi is credited with leading efforts to create formal military structures within the Mau Mau, and convening a war council in 1953. He, along with Baimungi M'marete, Musa Mwariama, General China and Muthoni Kirima, was one of the Field Marshals.
Kenyan nationalists view him as the heroic figurehead of the Kenyan freedom struggle against British colonial rule, while the British government saw him as a terrorist.[2] Despite being viewed with disdain by the first two presidents of independent Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi, Kimathi and his fellow Mau Mau rebels were officially recognised as heroes in the struggle for Kenyan independence under the Mwai Kibaki administration, culminating in the unveiling of a Kimathi statue in 2007.[3] This was reinforced by the passage of a new Constitution in 2010 calling for recognition of national heroes.
^Koinange, Machua (20 October 2013). "My encounter with the man who shot Dedan Kimathi". The Standard. Standard Media Kenya. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
^Branch, Daniel: Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. Cambridge University Press, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-13090-5.
^Kinyatti, Maina (2005). "Kimathi: The man, the myth and the legacy". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015.
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