Hero or villain? The battle for Chief Kasina’s disputed legacy

Chief Kasina Ndoo dressed in colonial civil administration uniform: Medals dangle on his limbless torso. [Courtesy]

When history student Levin Opiyo posted the imposing mugshot of Chief Kasina Ndoo dressed in colonial administrators' uniform with medals dangling on his limbless torso, nothing prepared him for the emotional barbs that ensued between his off-springs and descendants of his subjects.

In the Facebook post last week, Opiyo had given a short narration of Kasina’s exploits as colonial chief over the emergency period, attending Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, to having his limbs chopped off later that year by unknown people.