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“My only crime is that I am a Kenyan revolutionary who led a liberation army... My blood will water the tree of Independence.”
As reported by Mũkami Kimathi · Words to his wife Mũkami Kimathi at their last meeting in Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, Nairobi, on the morning of his execution, 18 February 1957, as she later recounted
Context Captured in October 1956 and sentenced to death for possessing a firearm, the Mau Mau field marshal was granted a final meeting with his wife, herself detained in the same prison.
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