by Njuki Githethwa | Mar 7, 2022 | Issue 8, Mashujaa
Muthoni wa Kirima is a retired top-ranking female fighter in the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, popularly known as Mau Mau Movement in the 1950s. Few Mau Mau women became active fighters and the extraordinary roles of many others are often disregarded in what Professor...
by Judy Aldrick | Nov 15, 2021 | Issue 7, Mashujaa
By Judy Aldrick* In 1592, the island of Mombasa was divided between the Portuguese and the Sultan of Malindi. The Portuguese took the part facing the sea. The new Sultan of Mombasa had been granted the prestigious title brother-in-arms to the King of Portugal and a...
by Njuki Githethwa | Aug 27, 2021 | Issue 6, Mashujaa
Waiyaki wa Hinga was a leading personality in people’s resistance against the British invasion and occupation of Southern Gikuyuland – Kabete. He was one of the several chiefs who had acquired feudal lordship in Gikuyuland in the nineteenth century. It is on Waiyaki’s...
by Njuki Githethwa | Apr 6, 2021 | Issue 5, Mashujaa
Koitalel Arap Samoei (1860 – October 19, 1905) was an Orkoiyot, the supreme and political leader of the Nandi people of Kenya. He led the Nandi resistance against British colonial rule. The Nandi Resistance was a military conflict that took place in Kenya between 1890...
by Njuki Githethwa | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Issue 4, Mashujaa
Moraa Ng’iti, like the famous Tanzanian Kinjekitile Ngwale, emerged as one of the seers and medicine woman in Kenya in the 19th and 20th Century in the advent of colonialism. Moraa is assumed to have been of middle age by 1900. She is identified as Moraa moka Ng’iti,...
