The independence struggle has largely been credited to the MAUMAU…but there were those who stood up to the British Colonial Masters even before the state of emergency was declared…. Elijah Masinde was among the very first…. We go back in time to tell the lesser known story of a man from a small Bukusu village, Kimilili in Bungoma county, who wanted the British Colonialists to leave and for Africans to worship their own God.