MUINDI MBINGU

Muindi Mbingu was a prolific Kamba leader born in Mutituni ward in Machakos Sub County who led the Akamba in resisting British colonialism in pre-independent Kenya. Born in 1893, he is remembered for mobilizing the Akamba to demonstrate against the British destocking policy of 1937, which claimed that the huge herds of cattle were degrading the environment, therefore, seizing the Akamba cattle by force. A year later in 1938, the vocal and fearless Muindi Mbingu was accused by the colonial government of being the founder of the “Mau Mau uprising “ which led to his arrest and detainment for seven years in the Coastal Islands of Lamu. He was later brutally murdered in 1953; his death marked the climax of Mau Mau Revolution. What Muindi Mbingu did for his people is worth remembering hence Muindi Mbingu Street in Nairobi and Muindi Mbingu secondary school.