THE STANDARD By
XN Iraki |
January 31st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Contractors working on a section of road in Murang a town. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]
Something curious happened in Murang’a and Kiambu to some extent between 1930 and 1937. Hordes of men and women immigrated to Embu.
They did not settle in the well-watered part of Embu like Runyenjes but arid areas towards Mbere.
Why did men and women leave their well-watered and fertile ancestral land and settle in a worse place climatically?
Most of them became squatters and never owned the land.
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Some volunteered to fight for the British Empire in faraway lands such as Burma or Egypt.
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