AMERU OF KENYA SURVIVED MANY ODDITIES

AMERU SURVIVED ODDITIES

By: TARCISIO F. B. GICHUNGE JOEL KIREMA M'RINGERA

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Introduction
Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Joel Kirema M’Ringera

Ameru are a community in Kenya. They are a peaceful people who love to live in freedom and harmoniously with their neighbors. Millenniums and millenniums ago, they crossed the Red Sea to live in Egypt. In Egypt, they became experts in Pyramids’ building and other constructions. Rulers forced them to surrender their technology to them and instead of surrendering their technology; they escaped and meandered their way to Mboa (Manda Island) in the Kenyan coast. They lived there peacefully until when the Portuguese started to capture them as slaves for export to America from AD 1500.

They escaped from Mboa approximately AD 1650 and arrived in Meru around AD 1700, after meandering in the wilderness for about forty years. In Meru, they found other communities who lived in the land and forced them to leave for somewhere else. Those who left buried all sources of water never to be traced.

While in Meru after 200 years the British colonizers arrived and conquered them for colonization after a dueling struggle. In the end Ameru with other communities of Kenya struggled to gain their independence through Freedom Fighters who fought the Independence War known as Mau, Mau Movement whose last leader was a Mmeru who was never captured by the colonial sources until the day he left the forest of his own will.

The aim of this edition is to prove to the world that Ameru of Kenya are a resilient, buoyant, hardy, robust, irrepressible, and resistant people who solve their problems peacefully even after going through many huddles in life.

Ameru crossed the Red Sea to avoid war, they escaped from Egypt to avoid clash with the enemy, and they escaped from Mboa to avoid confrontation with the enemy. When they arrived in Meru, they accepted colonization through the hard way and maneuvers without creating tension until when they gained their independence along with other communities in Kenya on 12th, December 1963. It is worth reading.