Dedan Kimathi Waciuri, born Kimathi wa Waciuri, was the senior most military and spiritual leader during the Mau Mau Uprising. Widely regarded as a revolutionary leader, he led an armed military struggle against the British colonial regime in Kenya in the 1950s until his capture in 1957. Kimathi was one of the Field Marshals in the Mau Mau military ranks. Kimathi is credited with leading efforts to create formal military structures within the Mau Mau, and convening a war council in 1953. Kenyan nationalists view him as the heroic figurehead of the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial minority rule while the British government saw him as a terrorist.
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