Maina wa Kinyatti: The Patriot Who Stood at a Time Many Would Have Preferred to Lie Down

Abstract

In beautiful and captivating prose, Mzalendo Wanjira writes about Maina wa Kinyatti’s detention and ordeal in the hands of his captors - the pain, anger, frustration, resilience, commitment and loyalty to the cause. She recollects how her first encounter with Kenya: A Prison Notebook made her question the history she’d been taught, and more fundamentally, to understand the truth about post-colonial Kenya and its attempt to hide its glorious struggle against imperialism and in turn blind coming generations from their generational objective.