We need to get something clear. Opposition to Mau Mau wasn't opposition to independence! There were people who were against use of violence in the freedom struggle.

Of course those categories of people were more enlightened, more "westernised", and took their kids to school. And alliance was a pioneer school.

Anyway, back to Matiba and his legacy. I still find his decision to leave a Permanent Secretary position for a management trainee position bold. This was at a time when almost everyone in govt didn't have to do much scheming to get super deals on land etc

Even today, who leaves senior public service jobs for the taxing private sector?

Then he joined breweries where he had to do all manner of tasks to familiarise with the company. In his book, he talks of how he even scrubbed floors!! He even had to be transferred to Tz to keep him away from the people who knew him. Anyway, he still rose fast to the helm of the company..

Perhaps he wasn't just a lucky guy(to be PS at 32 was some stroke of luck, the whites were leaving) but was a very hardworking guy. He talks of how when he was posted to Education Ministry Hqs he'd work till midnight. When he started his hotel business, he'd work the whole weekend at the coast and travel back to Nairobi in time for Monday work.

We've also heard how serious he was as a Minister. Kaigangio et al, any memories from back then?

When baba uses or is perceived to use violence we denounce him yet we accept that violence accelerates the change process

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The new constitution was realized mainly because of PEV
Rwanda would still be a shit-hole if genocide had not happened
Violence is the only language that the politerati understand.

I am so sorry to break your little fragile heart and ego. That a militia that killed 70 white people gave you independence by chasing away an empire that defeated the Germans less than 20 years earlier. The political struggle gave us independence - if it was not for the Mau Mau akina kenyatta wouldn't have gone to prison. Political agitation was everything Mau Mau actually delayed independence! They are indirectly caused independence because Mbeberu acted inhumanly to people as a way to sort this rebellion and news of this went to the UK parliament and the British government started pulling out. Independence ganI hii ambayo Mbeberu anawapeleka lAncaster kuwatengenezea constitution?

IMHO, I bet the colonialists achieved in Kenya beyond their wildest dreams. Today ours is a hegemonic imperialist state right from economic to political spheres. We have had the JK imperialist era where like the colonial times opposition was unwelcome, starting with the KPU Jaramogi errors all the way to JM and Tom Mboya murders in the political front that was continued by Nyayo with Ouko et al being sent to their graves early because of dissent. Not to mention Matiba and co incarceration.

On the economic front the plunder continues from where Jomo left and where Nyayo followed. In a word had the real freedom fighters of the JM, Kimathi and Kungu Karumba ilk taken over maybe we'd have true liberation at all fronts. But sadly we cannot appreciate the psychology of collaboration against their "house slave/nigger"mentality of when looked at from a point of view of what to do with independence.

Since kenya is not just kikuyuland, can you also tell us what happened in luoland, luhyaland, turkanaland, pokotland, somaliland/NE, masailand etc etc.

Before the United States joined the world war II, where Britain was at risk of losing to Germany, President Woodrow Wilson made Wintson Churchhill to swear a secret Mt. Kenya oath administered by a Mt.Kenya elder, largely organised by Jomo Kenyatta, in the Presence of several global elders, that he will grant independence to ALL AFRICAN countries within 15 years from 1941, this is called the ATLANTIC CHARTER, this is the document that guaranteed our independence and not the other things you hear about, research it! It is the good side of America, that saved us, otherwise we would have been cleared aboriginal style, eveolution theory had prepared the ground, people now thought we were really monkeys, up to today, "monkeys argue" about how they got independence, it was granted by God.