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Sunday, May 8 was Mother’s Day. Down all mammary lanes, few Kenyan women can hold a candle to mothers of political prisoners who staged strikes lasting 11 months from February 28, 1992.
With the late Nobel Peace Laureate Prof Wangari Maathai behind them, these mothers camped at Uhuru Park’s ‘Freedom Corner’ in Nairobi in a hunger strike, after unsuccessfully petitioning then Attorney General Amos Wako to free their sons. Detention, they argued, was incongruent with the political latitude then enshrined in law after Kenya shrugged off single-party dictatorship in December 1991.
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