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Mau Mau girls offered 'sexual relief' in forest

A former primary school teacher, a dairy and timber clerk, a pig farmhand with a missing left index finger, a trader in hides and an admired but violent thief was hanged on February 18, 1957.

That man was Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi. He spoke in parables and quoted the Old Testament Kikuyu Bible he carried and borrowed the British military hierarchy for his rat tag forest militia.

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