Why only old bones can save Agikuyu from Mukami's curse

When Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua visited Mama Mukami Kimathi, the wife of Mau Mau veteran Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi on January 15, 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

In 2009, I tracked down the man who was suspected of hanging Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi. We picked the rumour in Nyeri, that the man who hang Kimathi was still alive, and that, he alone knew where the famous liberation hero was buried. With photographer Joseph Kanyi, I set out for Kahigaini village in Tetu on a chilly August morning.

There, we found him. Then 85, he was a pale shadow of the man who once struck terror in death row convicts in the '60s.