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Nabongo Cultural Center mausoleum. [David Gichuru, Standard]
When the Duke of Edinburg died recently, heads of state from across the world sent condolences. Among them was Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, CGH, President and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya’s armed forces.
Uhuru, for those who may not know because Kenyans are notorious for their short memory, was son of Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta, aka Burning Spear, and the man once referred to as a leader unto a darkness by British colonialists.
But insult is not all the Brits did. They arrested Burning Spear on false charges, procured witnesses to lie that he was a Mau Mau leader and tossed him into detention, with intent to drown him in a drum of whiskey. So it was with great amusement that I watched Jomo condole with the very royals who stole his father’s land and jailed him for whining about it.