Kapenguria six biography for kids
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The Man Who Betrayed Kapenguria Six: The Story of Rawson Macharia
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies, but from the people, you would least expect.
This was the state of affairs during the clamour for independence in the early s as Kenyan nationalists pressed harder to have colonialists leave the country.
The Mau Mau movement, which resisted the British herravälde in Kenya, had just been proscribed by the colonial government, with members being hunted bygd soldiers from their homes and hideouts.
To quell the tension that was gaining momentum with the group's formation, the newly appointed governor of the Kenya colony, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency in while targeting top leaders opposed to his government who were not necessarily members of Mau Mau.
A file image of the Kapenguria Six
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The short-term cause for the declaration, however, was the brutal elimination of a prominent Kenyan Chief, Waruhiu wa Ku
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The Kapenguria Museum is located off the Kitale-Lodwar Highway, some 5 kilometers from Makutano town in West Pokot County and is situated just next to the County Assembly.
The Museum was officially opened to the public in at the site where the six most influential independence struggle leaders; Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Bildad Kaggia, Paul Ngei, Ramogi Achieng’Oneko, Fred Kubai and Kungu Karumba were detained in All of them have since passed on although their legacy will always remain alive.
The cells where the famous ‘Kapenguria six’ were detained, the ethnographic galleries and the Pokot Homesteads provide the foundation of the Kapenguria Museum. Displays in the museum also include books and documents in a memorial library in honor of all heroes who participated in the struggle for independence.
Other sections of the museum are the political development exhibits, a section containing exhibits revealing pre-colonial Kenya, slavery, the arrival of Europeans, African resistance to col
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Kapenguria Six
Kenyan pre-independence detainees
The Kapenguria Six – Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and Achieng' Oneko – were six leading Kenyan nationalists who were arrested in , tried at Kapenguria in –53, and imprisoned thereafter in Northern Kenya.
Prelude
[edit]Evelyn Baring was the new Governor, who arrived in Kenya on 30 September [1]
After the European invasion, large amounts of Kenya's best land were alienated for exclusive white use. Kenyans were allowed to remain as tenant farmers ('squatters') on land they had previously owned or newly cultivated; their terms of service steadily worsened. At Olenguruoune in , 11, squatters were expelled, the beginning of the last act of a land dispute that had raged since the s.[2][3] The first Mau Mau oaths were probably administered there and then.[4] Kenyatta returned home from the UK in By , oathing had spread all over Kikuyuland and into Nair