Kamirithu is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province. It was one of the colonial villages established during the scramble for the Kenyan "White Highlands" in the early 1900s. Kamirithu is the home of Chief Kamiri and Chief Jairus. The village was closed together and the people were brutally beaten and input tough curfews. They used to farm in the tea farms and be thoroughly beaten at place today called KIBOKO. They were blocked from going and feeding the maumau people. As a result, they were input under high pressure of labour and mental stress by the English man. If you have a visit at the place, the people still live with alot of mental discomfort because of genes inheritance from their fore-fathers. The Kamirithu people owned the most fertile soils in the redhills ,Tigoni, RUNDA and Kitisuru parts. The Kamirithu is best known from Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Kamirithu Educational and Cultural Center, who is known of highly being oppressed from reality by his late 2nd president Daniel Arap Moi who jailed him and also exiled him outside Kenya by blocking him to enter the country. Kamirithu polytechnic which was an open-air theater where Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) was first performed.
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