Olenguruone: Origin of famous Mau Mau oath

Kikuyu elders during an oathing cleansing ceremony at the height of the Mau Mau uprising. PHOTO | COURTESY

In my recent article about the Lari Massacre, I mentioned that some of the families which were displaced from Limuru and Tigoni in the early 1900s to make way for European settlement were dispatched by rail to work on farms in the Rift Valley (ruguru rwa ngaari) as squatters.

These squatters were at first moved to the White Highlands, then to the Maasai Reserve and later around 1941, to Olenguruone (place of ashes) in Mau (twins) Narok (black).

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