"Some fighters are alive, but live in squalor. They are handicapped, blind, sick, beggars and squatters because nobody shared with them what we fought for. They sacrificed to unchain Kenya, but they were left poorer."
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As quoted in the City News article of The Standard By James Mwangi | 5 years ago.
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Muthoni wa Kirima
Muthoni wa Kirima (born in 1931) was a top-ranking female fighter in Kenya's liberation movement The Mau Mau or Land Freedom Army in the 1950. She is the only woman said to have been bestowed the Mau Mau rank of field-marshal.
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