The Kisumu massacre of October 25, 1969, is arguably the most tragic chapter in Kenya’s postcolonial history, marking the violent fracture between the nation’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, and the Luo community he once allied with in the independence struggle. By the late 1960s, Kenya’s political landscape had grown increasingly tense along ethnic lines, withContinue reading “1969 KISUMU MASSACRE: When Jomo Kenyatta opened fire on innocent harmless Kisumu residents”
