One of last Kenya Mau Mau 'forgotten' independence fighters buried

Relatives carry the casket of one of Kenya's last Mau Mau resistance fighter, Christopher Njora Muronyo, known as "General Kiambati", during his burial in Nyandarua County on February 14, 2026. [AFP]

At the funeral for one of the last leaders of Kenya's Mau Mau resistance movement on Saturday, his daughter is bitter: he fought to liberate a country that never thanked him.

Christopher Njora Muronyo died at the age of 106 in poverty, still carrying three bullets in his body from his time as a Mau Mau rebel against the British in the 1950s.