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Field Marshal Musa Mwariama was a leader of the Mau Mau in Meru and the highest ranking Mau Mau freedom fighter who survived the war in the Forests and Jungles of Central Kenya from its inception to independence without being killed or captured. Together with Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi and Waruhiu Itote (Genera China) they comprised the core Mau Mau leadership. He was towering six foot tall.
He fought the British Military might through his unique Guerrilla fighting tactics. By the time he left his bases in Mount Kenya and Nyambeni Hills on the equator, he had about 2,000 fighters who had survived the brutal fighting and bombings of the British Operation Anvil in Kenya. He was decorated with the national Order of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS) after independence. The most famous photograph of him is with President Jomo Kenyatta on attainment of Uhuru (independence) in 1963 and most of the post war Mau Mau video clips show him inspecting a Mau Mau guard of Honour or with President Jomo Kenyatta.
Early life
M'Kirigua M'Muchiri alias Musa Mwariama was born in 1928 at Muthara in Tigania division of Meru District. According to Ameru tradition, his parents who had migrated from Nkuene in South Imenti, gave him the name Baringo. He had an older Brother called Romano Ntabathita though from a different mother. Their father, M'Muchiri was a soothsayer and therefore a strict traditionalist.
References
- Njagi,D (1993)."THE LAST MAU MAU",Kolbe Press,Limuru,Kenya.
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