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Field Marshal Muthoni Wa Kirima's dreadlocks represented her connection to Kenya's freedom and her rejection of colonisation. [Lydia Nyawira, Standard]
The 2022 election negates previous practice in post-colonial Kenya. Politicians have embraced the Mau Mau War as a tool of political persuasion in the Mountain zone.
Up to the 1980s, the independence leadership tried to convince the West that Kenya, unlike Congo, was safe and safely in the Western camp of the Cold War and shunned anything to do with the Mau Mau War.
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