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I wasn’t forced to cut dreadlocks: 92-year-old Mau Mau fighter Muthoni wa Kirima

Mau Mau Field Marshal Muthoni Kirima after shaving 70-year-old dreadlocks [Ndungu Gachane, Standard]

Mau Mau Field Marshal Muthoni wa Kirima agreed to be tonsured.

The news that the five-foot long dreadlocks the only female Mau Mau Field Marshal had kept for 70 years had been cut sparked outrage on social media platforms.

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