OUR EDUCATION IN UGANDA WAS CUT SHORT AND WE WERE SENT BACK TO KENYA - PETER ITOTIA

One of the greatest but unremarked tragedies that occurred after the State of Emergency was declared was the curtailment of educational opportunities for the Gikuyu, Embu and Meru youths. It is no wonder that Mau Mau youths who emerged from the forest couldn't be given jobs since most of them were illiterate. In this interview, Mau Mau veteran Peter Itotia narrates how he and his fellow students were rounded up in Uganda where they had gone to pursue education, cheated that they would be transferred to schools in their localities in Kenya, only for them to be detained by the police and forcibly sent to farms where their parents worked for white settlers. Itotia also tells of how he took the oath, and how he went into the forest, following an unexpected murder of an innocent man who accidentally came to face with Mau Mau fighters who in turn considered him a risk and therefore decided to finish him off. He also talks about land and how their dream of acquiring it went up in smoke.

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  • @rosemwangi9417
    @rosemwangi94179 ай бұрын

    I love these chronicles. I find them very informative Thank you so very much for your work.

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    9 ай бұрын

    Thank you. They are informative because they are authentic. Veterans and survivors telling their own stories.

  • @lukedermott1589
    @lukedermott15899 ай бұрын

    Frightening how quickly Kenya and Uganda have forgotten this history. Doomed to repeat it.

  • @johnwathiru6845

    @johnwathiru6845

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes. Our generation will do it. They will buy God again then he will colonize us again

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    9 ай бұрын

    This history should bring the two countries even closer.

  • @wambugumichael1130
    @wambugumichael11304 ай бұрын

    Am learning people from the mountain fought for our freedom and especially people from Nyeri will always be proud from Nyeri👍

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    3 ай бұрын

    Nyeri people did their part. But so did the people of Murang'a, Meru, Embu, Kiambu, Nyandarua, Nakuru, Nairobi, Laikipia, Machakos and Narok, not mention that other parts of the country had their moments of resistance to colonial rule. But the greatest effort to rid this country of the colonizers shall remain the Mau Mau war.

  • @mwangimuya9573
    @mwangimuya95739 ай бұрын

    Haiya! That settler was called by simple words as “kwa randa” long live historian!

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    9 ай бұрын

    True that.

  • @kalash9411
    @kalash94118 ай бұрын

    Good to hear something about how land was allocated after independence. Good job MauMau Chronicles. Do more features on this subject

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    8 ай бұрын

    Working on it.

  • @wanjirukuria593
    @wanjirukuria5938 ай бұрын

    Thank You for this. I’m learning

  • @muriithinyawira1850
    @muriithinyawira18508 ай бұрын

    This stories are super interesting!

  • @OneDemMedia99
    @OneDemMedia999 ай бұрын

    Good job!!

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    9 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @user-ub9ne1xq5y
    @user-ub9ne1xq5y8 ай бұрын

    Good afternoon, my name is George Githaiga and I live with my grandmother and grandfather both born in 1940 and 1938 respectively and another elderly woman than them who sings mau mau songs. I wanted to inform them to you because I believe they can be of help towards this course of informing the next generation. Location is Nyeri, Wamagana.

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    8 ай бұрын

    Thank you. Please share your number via email: themaumauchronicles@gmail.com. We shall get in touch. Once again, thank you.

  • @user-ub9ne1xq5y

    @user-ub9ne1xq5y

    8 ай бұрын

    okay.wonderful

  • @SamuelWainaina0
    @SamuelWainaina06 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    6 ай бұрын

    We the veteran for his sacrifice

  • @itiamekimbui722
    @itiamekimbui7229 ай бұрын

    ndio maana Gachagua hakuhudhuria ugeni wa mkoloni

  • @georgeikinya2779

    @georgeikinya2779

    9 ай бұрын

    Uwongo, kang'ethia was technically and deliberately absented lest he gobbles food at state banquet like a hungry chokora

  • @janendegwa5462

    @janendegwa5462

    9 ай бұрын

    That one who carries his own maize choma so he doesn't have to buy ,I doubt he eats in those places ,na ni wa nyeri watu wa nyeri hawakuli hivi hivi

  • @michaelmwangi4245
    @michaelmwangi42459 ай бұрын

    Hallo Mau Mau chronicles, could you find content on how the maumau oath taking took place? It would be amazing

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    9 ай бұрын

    Most veterans are not willing to reveal some details of the oath but some have painted a broad picture of what used to happen. What is clear is that the oath bound people together. It was effective.

  • @bonfacewachira3297
    @bonfacewachira32974 ай бұрын

    Am loving every detail good job. ..Just asking did Ndungu WA gicheru ever got interviewed?

  • @bensonmathiah3253
    @bensonmathiah32538 ай бұрын

    thanks for the good work.Have you done ndu'ngu muru wa gicheru's story?he features in a certain kikuyu song that he used to shoot down the enemy's planes.

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    8 ай бұрын

    Ndungu Gicheru was a true hero and we would love to work on his profile. If you are in touch with his son who used to be in Atlanta, please ask him to get in touch using themaumauchronicles@gmail.com. We would like to interview him.

  • @RUCorrect
    @RUCorrect8 ай бұрын

    Wow! Thank You!! ..... What about "our" KiKamba, WaKamba breathren and sistren? re: Gikuyu, Meru, Embu and ??????

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    8 ай бұрын

    There was participation by the Kamba in the Mau Mau movement. We are working on a documentary about it. It must be understood however that colonialists worked very hard to divide a wedge between the Kikuyu and the Kamba for they feared the political juggernaut that would result if there was cooperation between the two.

  • @janendegwa5462
    @janendegwa54629 ай бұрын

    This man looks good for his age anyway this colonizers were evil they Iied to students just to hurt them ,uria mendaga tukahuka nu guo nao marahuka kou kwao ,thuu ndiguaga kuria ikagio

  • @maumauchronicles4296

    @maumauchronicles4296

    9 ай бұрын

    Funny you should mention that. These veterans have great genes! Many have lived long lives and are still going strong. Whilte others may be blessed with material wealth, they are blessed with good long lives.