Wambui Otieno Mbugua obituary

tireless advocate for women's rights in Kenya

Kenyan women's rights activist Wambui Otieno Mbugua, who died at the age of 75, was one of the few female leaders in the fight for the Mau Mau independence of its countries. The daughter of Mau Mau memoirs: A Story of Life (1998) was the first detailed account of the roles played by women in the struggle against colonial rule, largely ignored by historians colonial and postcolonial

after Kenya gained independence in 1963, Wambui was one of the first women to run for political elections. She campaigned strongly in favor of women and the cooperative movement and served as an elected official and advisor to the government of Jomo Kenyatta.

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born in the central province of a prominent family who had a long history of anti-colonial resistance. His grandfather, Waiyaki wa Hinga, was a leader of residence was arrested in 1892 by the British to ask the insurgency after the land violently seized from residence. Wa Hinga was exiled in Kibwezi and died under suspicious circumstances less than a month after his capture. Wambui's father, band Munyua Waiyaki, was the first Kenyan police inspector African, and said that the British gave this position to compensate the family for Waiyaki wa Hinga death.

In 1952, the colonial government introduced a state of emergency as the struggle for independence waged by the intensification of the Mau Mau. Wambui was a high school student in residence ", and secretly took an oath of loyalty to the movement. For the next two years, she saw a large number of disturbances and violence. She was unable to travel to Britain to attend college, his father was arrested and his cousin was killed by the colonial government. She witnessed attacks on members of their community by colonial officials and some members of his staff in Kenya.

After a fugue in 1954 to join the insurgency, Wambui spied against British women, mobilized and domestic staff and helped to obtain weapons. As a member of the Task Force of Jim Crow, who participated in the campaign to eradicate the "color bar" in public spaces have been designated areas where Asians, Europeans, Arabs and Africans. He was arrested several times for his participation in anti-colonial movements.

• was in a detention center on the island of Lamu as Wambui, as he relates in his autobiography, was repeatedly raped in 1960 by a British official. She said the man told him that his cabinet was a government decision, and expected that the Mau Mau if its standard or kill to have a child of the white man. She was released in 1961, pregnant after being raped. He tried unsuccessfully to sue the government of colonial brutality.
In 1963, she married Silvanus Melea Otieno's lawyer of. It was Luo and Kikuyu was, marriage was not initially very well with some family members. Wambui, said he chose the date of August 17 that it was the anniversary of the arrest of his grandfather. Married life was not normal for her: she traveled around Kenya and abroad as a champion of women's rights, often leaving her husband to take care of the family, which now includes children of parents that had favored

In the 1960s, joined the People's Party led by Tom Mboya Nairobi Convention, as leader of the female, and later the National Union of Kenya, Africa. It was also a prominent figure in the successor organization of Mau Mau, Kiama Kia Muingi.

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