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“I swear that I will fight for the African soil that the white man has stolen from us. I swear that I will always try to trick a white man and any imperialist into accompanying me, strangle him, and take his gun and any valuables he may be carrying. I swear that I will offer all available help and further the cause of Mau Mau. I swear that I will kill, if necessary, anybody opposed to this organization.
A second source claims that the oath was as follows:

I speak the truth and vow before God And before this movement, The movement of Unity, The Unity which is put to the test The Unity that is mocked with the name of ‘Mau Mau’, That I shall go forward to fight for the land, The lands of Kirinyaga that we cultivated, The lands which were taken by the Europeans. And if I fail to do this May this oath kill me...

Kind of sounds Obamish and Chicagoish to me. Sounds like the Rev. Jeremiah, too.