THE MAU MAU OATH WAS A POWERFUL, BINDING BLOOD OATH FOR THE COMMUNITY - TABITHA GACHAMBI WA MAINA 

A member of Kenya’s greatest generation, Tabitha Gachambi wa Maina from Murang'a has seen it all. She has seen a colonised country, and then a country ravaged by the war for independence, followed by a country that is ruling itself and has seen six decades of independent Kenya. Like all the veterans from the Mau Mau era, her reminisces are rich in contextual insights and unparalleled wisdom as she traces the historical architecture of a colonised society, revealing the nature of the social hierarchies of that era, and capturing in a thrilling fashion the nitty-gritties of the context of our liberation struggle. Here and there, she breaks into revolutionary song, transporting the listener to a more heroic past, to an era where the material conditions of this country required a spiritual transformation of the people into the heroic form meet for the assignment of the hour. She is: a Mau Mau veteran of immense historical value. #maumau #maumauchronicles #colonialkenya #kenya #uhuru #dedankimathi