How guerrilla wars and gun revolution outed colonialists at peak of struggle

Mzee Jomo Kenyatta waves his flywhisk during Kenya independence celebrations at Uhuru Park.

Long before the drums of war and songs of redemption echoed in the ridges, valleys and mountains in Central Kenya, a group of uneducated clansmen started charting the destiny of their country.

Seizing the most powerful tools of violence from their masters, guns, the elders then waged a psychological and physical war on their rulers and stirred Rift Valley into a rebellion, which sent chills down the spines of the colonialists.