A Grain of Wheat

Mugo stayed in detention and he was eating half cooked porridge.

Maguita-Last detention center.

Warui is village elder,give mugo to land for growing Seth to eat.

Thabai was a big village.

Mugo’ s mother and father passed away and he was left to his distant aunt to stay with.Her name was Waitherero.

She was widow with her six married daughters.

She was paranoiac.She thinks that they wan to poison her.

Wambui, one of the women from the the river.Gikonyo, he got married with Kihika’s sister.Wariu was the leader of

He was the leader of the movement.Later in He captured, tortured and hang.Most of the people gathered by whiteman to see him and told them that if they behave llike him, their ends will be the same as him.

Later on 2 more people came to the room.One of them is general R,the other one is Lieutenant Koina.They stayed in the forest 7 years.They ate bamboo to stay alive.

General came to inform that Muge will give the speech because of the man who helped Kihika for the freedom of them.

Mumbi , she was Gikonyo’s wife.

Mumbi wants to have a child but Gikonyo is far away from that thought.He sleeps at the different room than his wife.

He doesn’t want to eat , he lost his appetite.He eats some only to live.

( He seems that he is in great depression.I couldn’t understand why yet.But he stayed in the detention centers six years and Mugo too.He thinks that Mugo can understand his feelings wellHe wanted to talk with him.)

I said finally dr henry passed away.I didn’t like his behavior toward African library workers.He squazed their shoulder and strike their bottom.And he was touching them, it is not a game.

John Thompson and Mrs Dickinsin used Karanja as their personal messenger.

Karanja calls them and john’ s wife as sahib, memsahib(It means that He is the property of these guys.)

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta CGH (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.

Kenya Emergency

The Kenya Emergency (1952-60), or Mau Mau Revolt, was one of the British Army's bloodiest post-war conflicts. Although the rising was defeated, many Kenyans still regard it as a significant step on their country's road to independence.

Mau Mau uprising

In 1952, elements of the Kenyan Kikuyu tribe, known as the Mau Mau, began a guerrilla campaign against Europeans and fellow Africans.

Although it contained many elements of anti-colonialism, the rising was primarily about land ownership and who was to rule Kenya once the British withdrew. Many Kikuyu had lost land to white settlers during the previous decades.

Detention

Many Mau Mau suspects were placed in detention camps where conditions were poor. Disease was rife and food in short supply.

Maltreatment also included torture and summary executions. The most notorious incident occurring at the Hola camp, where 11 detainees were killed by their African prison warders.

The 1959 Hola massacre was a massacre committed by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau Uprising at a colonial detention camp in Hola, Kenya.

( She had a bas experience during the Emergecy)

Thompson was anofficer at Rika derention center.

Later on Mugo explains that he is beaten by Thompson.

When Kihika was in Christian school , he said that female circumsation didnt discussed in the Bible.But their teacher Muniu said that this is God’ s word.However he could not prove this idea from the verses of the Bible.

For rescuing the soul of Kihika, he will be spat to his naked buttocks in front of the all assembly.

Muniu and Jackson joined the evangelitic movement which was lead by white missionaries.This movement stared first in Ruwanda and spreaded to Uganda and Kenya.

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Jomo Kenyatta[a] CGH (c.1897 – 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous head of government and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death

Jomo kenyatta and other leaders of the land were rounded up: Governer Baring had declared a State of Emetgency over Kenya.

( Gatu helped them to stand the conditions around them.He didn’t let them to become hopeless.He made jokes, he helped them to smile.

He reminds me the book of man’ s search for meaning.If you stay positive, positivity keeps you alive.If you have an aim in your life, it keeps stay stand.

But when Gatu heard the news , he didnt joke.He only said that it is a kind of joke to break their strength.)

( This part teminde me that you are in the deep well so that others can not see you and help because you are out of sight.

Becoming helplessness is the worst thing to stand.But Gikoyo thinks about his wife Mumbi and her mother wangari.)

( They think that only English speakers can lead the country.

They are surprise to see that the man who doesn’ t speak or write English lead the Country of Russia.)

( Gikonyo came back from detention center to home after 6 years.He changed 7 detention center.It seems detention centers but actually they were concentration camp.There is torture, whiteman was trying to take an oath to find who is the leaders of the groups and who is helping that movement.

Gikonyo , Gatu didn’t give any names.One day Gatu was mimicking whiteman and Queen, he was punished many times but next day , Gikonyo saw him that he was hanged in his cell.Guardians said that he suicided himself but they were laughing and showing that they have a great power to punish people even can cause their deaths.

After 6 years Gikonyo came home but everything had changed.His wife is not his wife anymore.His wife has kids who are not coming from his seeds, instead of him they are coming from his friends’ seed ( Karanja’s)

Karanja took his home, his wife everything he has now.

Karanja is the chief of the Thabai.He governs the city and accepts the power of whiteman.

The worst thing in the world , stabbing behind the back by your friends.They betrayed you.)”

Pg:124 The memory was of a day in May 1955.Kenya had been in a State of Emergency for about two years.

Pg:127(Rxtra info)

Esau is a boy's name of Hebrew origin. This name translates to “hairy,” but don't be put off by this unusual meaning. Esau is a Biblically significant name that belonged to the twin brother of Jacob. It was also a name adopted by Nonconformists in the 17th century, particularly in South Wales.

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Realizing what his Rebekah and Jacob had done, Esau sought to kill Jacob, forcing him to flee to his uncle Laban. Before he left, his father blessed him and charged him to marry a woman from among their people, instead of Canaanite women like his brother.Jan 24, 2022

(Thompson wanted Mugo to confess the oath but he didn’t.

Thompson let the warders to beat but later on he could not stand and he did it by himself.Mugo never cried or beg for him to forgive himself.

Thompson wanted to break his resistance but couldn’t.The behavior of Mugo encouranged other detainees.So that they wanted their rights from whiteman.

-Increased the amount of food

-Treat them like political prisoners not like criminal .

When these are not accepted, they went on hunger strike.)

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(kihika killed Robson and hid inside the Mugo’ s hut.Mugo was 25 years old at this time.

Crucifixion means

A few shall die that the many shall live.

Kihika’ s idea.

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( Hard decision for Mugo)

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( I don’t know how people behave to the traitors who took an oath and now they licked the foot of whiteman.Who was the protector of the country?

Because of Mau Mau ‘s action many people were killed by whites.)

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Kenya regained her Uhuru ( freedom) from the British on 12 December 1963.

Kenya’s flag

The Kenyan flag includes symbols of unity, peace, and defence of the country. The color black represents the people of the Republic of Kenya, red for the bloodshed during the fight for independence, and green for the country's landscape and natural wealth. The white fimbriation was added later to symbolise peace, honesty, purity, and innocence. The black, red, and white traditional Maasai shieldand two spears symbolise the defence of all the things mentioned above. Many of both colours and symbolic values are shared with the flag of South Sudan.