Nairo,Kenya:As we celebrate 50 years of self internal rule this week, let us remember the veterans who sacrificed their lives for this cause. One of the most notable freedom fighters was Dedan Kimathi ...

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts drama department will present the American première of the play “The Trial of Dedan Kimathi” this Saturday. Written by distinguished Kenyan authors and playwrights ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’oand Micere Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is not a courtroom drama inthe polite, procedural sense. It is a theatrical ambush. From the firstmoments, the reader is dragged into a ...

As the country marks Mashujaa Day, it is ironical that we celebrate soldiers whom we left behind in battle, and whose families languish in poverty. They are celebrated for the blood, sweat and tears ...

Many things happened to Africa in the month of February and interestingly Kimathi University College has set aside a week of reflection on one of them; the killing and impact of Dedan Kimathi. In ...

National Museums of Kenya in partnership with Dedan Kimathi Foundation on Thursday organized a workshop geared towards explaining the different technologies they will use in the exercise. The workshop ...

Demonstrators in front of the Dedan Kimathi statue, Nairobi, April 2011. NOOR KHAMIS / REUTERS They know when and where he was executed in 1957. They know in which prison near Nairobi his body was ...

Dedan Kimathi, the man whose name struck fear in the colonial settler community is rarely portrayed as vulnerable. The legacy of the Kenyan independence hero depicts a man who is tough through and ...

Sitting on her wheelchair, heavily dressed and tended to by her granddaughter at her home in Komarock, Mukami Kimathi, the widow of Kenya’s freedom fighter, Dedan Kimathi, is tired if her heavy sighs, ...

On arrival at the hospital, she was received by the doctors but after several tests, they informed us that she wouldn't make it, she died a few minutes later and we took her body to Lee Funeral Home ...