Muthoni wa Kirima, Mau Mau icon, honored for anticolonial struggle

The Kenyan resistance fighter fought British colonization in the 1950s.

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Her movement, the Mau Mau, faced violent repression with at least 10,000 deaths.

Muthoni wa Kirima now embodies the memory of Kenya's independence struggles.

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