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Remembering Muthoni Nyanjiru and the women who helped fight colonialists

History has tended to silence the voices of women and erase the roles they played in Kenya’s freedom struggle.

A case in point is what happened on March 16, 1922 when a group of Kenyan workers gathered at the then Kingsway Police Station (now Central Police Station) to agitate for the release of one of their leaders — Harry Thuku.

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