Dedan Kimathi
Kenyan leader during the Mau Mau Uprising (1920-1957) · Politicians · Died at 36
Dedan Kĩmathi Waciũri was the leader of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army during the Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960) against the British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s. He was captured by the British in 1956 and executed in 1957. Kenya gained independence in 1963.
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Kĩmathi 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, Kubu Kubu, General China and Mũthoni Kīrīma, was one of the Field Marshals.
