Mau Mau child detainee, becomes an author at 70

Dan Kairo speaks on his jouney from being a Mau Mau child detainee. [Photo Courtesy/Dan Kairo]

When Dan Kairo says he is a Mau Mau detainee it is somewhat difficult to believe his assertion. For one, he was born in June 1954, while the State of Emergency, that ushered in mass detentions of Kikuyus, had been declared a year before.

"I was two months old, still on my mother's back, when my parents were detained," he explains. "My mother and I went to a detention facility in Limuru while my father was hauled to the Athi River Detention Camp."