Pundit, Njuri..Githunguri Indepent schools is where Kikuyu mental liberalition s

[KenyanPlato]

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Oppressed people must educate themselves to free their minds from bondage..Here is another testimony of what independent schools did for kikuyus in creating awareness of what the white colonialists were doing. My dad tells me of stories of how Akina Njehu Gatabaki would debate with this white DO that believed he could outwit them. theDO would call barazas and hold debate between those opposed to white rule and those for it. Anyway see how Kenyatta freshly from his Europe was able to get the message ro the masses

[RV Pundit]

Kenyatta always had charisma.Yes of course education open the people horizons beyond what they see or hear.Its like the internet of before. Kikuyus and Luos embraced education because they were poor. Kalenjin and maasai rich cattle and land saw Mzungu..as distant object of derision. There was nothing to be liberated from to most kalenjin or maasai...except those that had lost land..and even then majority saw their pastoral life as largely unchanged. There wasny a real land pressure until way later when population expanded.In kalenjin the poor and orphan went to church or white highlands or schools..the rich stayed with huge herds of cattle with open disdain for Mzungu and his ways..

[KenyanPlato]

Kenyatta always had charisma.Yes of course education open the people horizons beyond what they see or hear.Its like the internet of before. Kikuyus and Luos embraced education because they were poor. Kalenjin and maasai rich cattle and land saw Mzungu..as distant object of derision. There was nothing to be liberated from to most kalenjin or maasai...except those that had lost land..and even then majority saw their pastoral life as largely unchanged. There wasny a real land pressure until way later when population expanded.In kalenjin the poor and orphan went to church or white highlands or schools..the rich stayed with huge herds of cattle with open disdain for Mzungu and his ways..

same thing among kikuyu only the poor and those kids seen as having less utility to the community were sent to missionary schools. Kenyatta ended there because his father had died and ngengi who had inherited the mother wad a serial abuser. Kenyatta mum fled back to her parents home.

[RV Pundit]

Medicine is what pulled women to Mzungu.
My grandmother told me when they say the women who had gone to church get 4 kids living they went to church.
Child mortality was crazy.
People did all sort of tricks for kids to survive - including withcraft - but rarely was a family ever getting 3 kids alive.
People married many women - just to get 3 or 5 kids to live - maybe 2 or 3 per woman in their lifetime.
Population was low because kids died en masse.
It must be been painful - bearing kids - then they die.
When those who embraced mzungu started having 4 then 6 then 10 kids alive - everyone wanted in.

Soon mwafrika was having 14 kids

same thing among kikuyu only the poor and those kids seen as having less utility to the community were sent to missionary schools. Kenyatta ended there because his father had died and ngengi who had inherited the mother wad a serial abuser. Kenyatta mum fled back to her parents home.