Children of true heroes holding on to tattered dreams

Our Heroes statues in Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Nearly all the veterans are gone. Natural attrition and hard living has wiped out the men and women who refused to give up.

They were facing off with an oppressive regime that was so tyrannical that at times children were punished for the crimes of their mothers and fathers. The few remaining are in their nineties battling ill health, coronavirus and age related complexities.