62 years after hanging: Dedan Kimathi grave found

Dedan Kimathi Waciuri was hanged and buried in an unmarked grave at Kamiti Maximum Prison in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

The burial site of freedom hero Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi Waciuri has been finally identified.

Kimathi was executed on February 18, 1957, effectively ending the Mau Mau war of independence, one of Africa’s most vicious peasant revolutions.