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Harry Thuku, activist who fought for women’s rights

By Kenneth Kwama

Kenya: One of the least acknowledged freedom fighters in Kenya, Harry Thuku, was also a women’s rights activist and his arrest in 1922 by colonial authorities led to the first major demonstration in Nairobi.

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