Kapenguria six biography of rory

Kenyan pre-independence detainees

The Kapenguria Six – Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and Achieng' Oneko – were six leading Kenyan nationalists who were arrested in 1952, tried at Kapenguria in 1952–53, and imprisoned thereafter in Northern Kenya.

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Prelude

Evelyn Baring was the new Governor, who arrived in Kenya on 30 September 1952.^[1]

After the European invasion, large amounts of Kenya's best land were alienated for exclusive white use. Kenyans were allowed to remain as tenant farmers ('squatters') on land they had previously owned or newly cultivated; their terms of service steadily worsened.

At Olenguruoune in 1944, 11,000 squatters were expelled, the beginning of the last act of a land dispute that had raged since the 1920s.^[2][3] The first Mau Mau oaths were probably administered there and then.^[4] Kenyatta returned home from the UK in 1946. By 1947, oathing had spread all o Biography of Kapenguria Six MOH