Barack Obama’s grandfather ‘tortured by the British’ during Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 11:32 AM on 3rd December 2008
Sarah Onyango, Barack Obama’s grandmother has revealed Mr Obama’s grandfather was tortured by the British during the Mau Mau rebellion
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We Need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: Malcolm X’s Political Lessons for Today
http://georgehartley.blogspot.com/2009/01/we-need-mau-mau-in-mississippi-malcolm.html
Jomo Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga, and the Mau Mau will go down as the greatest African patriots and freedom fighters that that continent ever knew, and they will be given credit for bringing about the independence of many of the existing independent states on that continent right now. There was a time when their image was negative, but today they’re looked upon with respect and their chief is the president and their next chief is the vice president.
I have to take time to mention that because, in my opinion, not only in Mississippi and Alabama, but right here in New York City, you and I can best learn how to get real freedom by studying how Kenyatta brought it to his people in Kenya, and how Odinga helped him, and the excellent job that was done by the Mau Mau freedom fighters. In fact, that’s what we need in Mississippi. In Mississippi we need a Mau Mau. In Alabama we need a Mau Mau. In Georgia we need a Mau Mau. Right here in Harlem, in New York City, we need a Mau Mau.
I say it with no anger; I say it with very careful forethought.
In all that information that you have shared it keeps saying that Kikuyu tribesmen were arrested for being involved in the Mau Mau activities. 0’s alleged grandfather was Luo. There was no mention of Luo in what you shared. Could this story about the grandfather be just another piece of the 0 mythology? Have you come across anything that indicates that Luo members were also part of the rebellion?