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Dedan Kimathi

1920–1957

Kenya

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Biography

Kimathi commanded forest-based fighters resisting British colonialism in Kenya and is honored today as a national hero of the independence struggle.

c. 1686–c. 1755

c. 1801–1832

c. 1822–1865