Field Marshal Muthoni Wa Kirima’s dreadlocks represented her connection to Kenya’s freedom and her rejection of colonisation. [Lydia Nyawira, Standard] The dreadlocks dropped one by one as the ...

he was imprisoned for donning the characteristic Mau Mau dreadlocks and sent to Manyani prison for a year. Freedom heroes who led struggle outside the forest "I was later sent to Baringo were I ...