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Muthoni wa Kirima Quotes

born 1931

Muthoni wa Kirima (born in 1931) was a top-ranking female fighter in Kenya's liberation movement The Mau Mau or Land Freedom Army in the 1950. She is the only woman said to have been bestowed the Mau Mau rank of field-marshal.

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I will not cut my Dreds because the fruits of independence have not been enjoyed by the people who sacrificed the most.

Some fighters are alive, but live in squalor. They are handicapped, blind, sick, beggars and squatters because nobody shared with them what we fought for. They sacrificed to unchain Kenya, but they were left poorer.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Muthoni wa Kirima (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.