On the morning of 21 October 1956, Dedan Kimathi was walking near a trench on the edge of the Nyandarua Forest in Nyeri, exhausted and alone, when a Home Guard named Ndirangu Mau shot him in the leg. Kimathi raised his hands and identified himself. He was captured, tried before an all-African jury on a charge of illegal possession of a firearm, and hanged at Kamiti Prison on 18 February 1957. The British colonial government printed over 100,000 …
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