founding patriots

Kaggia Bildad

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He was one of six legendary Mau Mau freedom fighters, including Kenya’s future President, Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British colonial government arrested and tried in a hastily made-up court in a small town in north-western Kenya called Kapenguria, convicted and locked up in jail and detention for nearly a decade before the country’s independence. After independence, he and Kenyatta would go their separate ways, with Kaggia sticking uncompromisingly to his socialist principles and choosing to live a simple unpretentious life devoid of the pomp and glory that independence had brought to some of his former freedom fighting colleagues.