WHEN MWARIAMA WENT TO SEE KENYATTA DISGUISED AS A PRIEST - CURATOR OF MWARIAMA MUSEUM, SIMON NTURURU

Contrary to some views, the Mau Mau were not opposed to the acquisition of modern education. The curator of Mwarima Heritage Center, a museum established in honour of Gen. Mwariama, speaks about this with the authority of lived experience. Although he is the son of a colonial civil servant, an agricultural extension worker charged with forcing Africans to build terraces on their land to prevent soil erosion, he was sympathetic to Mau Mau and wanted to remain in the forest to fight but he was ordered by Gen. Mwariama and his soldiers to go back to school and study hard so that he could liberate Kenya. Clearly, fighters were aware of their limitations, including little or no education, which was necessary to govern a modern state. This wise decision lives in the person of Ntururu, who later on became a teacher and education administrator now serves to perpetuate the memory of the freedom fighters. Ntururu also tells of the death of Gen Mwariama, a no-nonse Mau Mau leader who feared nobody who was once accused of smoking in court, and of the relationship between Gen Baimungi, Gen. Mwariama, and Gen Kimathi, and of Jackson Angaine, the postcolonial government minister for land and the efforts by veterans to acquire land. He also explains the importance of Mwariama museum.