Kirenya

Kirenya is a revolutionary government in the Horn of Africa. It borders the Empire of Ethiopia and Somalia to the North, Ostafrika to the south and Buganda to the west.

**History:**

The chaos seen in The Horn quickly spread- first to Deutsch-Kenia, an Anglo-Deutsch settler government loyal to Mittelafrika and descended in part from the British Kenya Colony. The Kenyan Settlers were once known as the most racist in the British Empire, and, with the power given to them following the transition to Deutsch-Kenia, they were quick to implement a series of brutal and draconian racial laws designed to keep the natives of Deutsch-Kenia firmly under their boot. Though initially successful, with the assistance of Ostafrika Askari and Settler militias, Black Monday, the return of Ostafrika Askaris to Dar-Es Salaam, and the aftershocks of the Ogaden War rapidly worsened the situation. Deutsch-Kenia soon found it’s Northern border overrun with Somali insurgents, who found much success against the poorly trained and cruel Settler militias, who had by now organized into the Kenya Home Guard. Deutsch-Kenia would grow reliant on Askari reinforcements and air support from Dar-Es Salaam to put down uprisings from the Somali population. With the start of the 2nd Weltkrieg, Mittelafrika would experience the greatest surge in unrest since 1925, and Ostafrika could no longer afford to assist Deutsch-Kenia in its attempts to crush the Somali insurgents. Nearly as soon as the Ostafrikan Askari had left, had the embers of revolution burst into a violent flame. The Bantu peoples (primarily the Kikuyu) of Deutsch-Kenia had long been mistreated and much of the fertile land in the colony was reserved in the so-called “White Highlands”. In 1925, famines worsened across the native lands of Deutsch-Kenia while the white settlers would continue to eat well and keep up grain exports. Most in the colonial government cared little for the wellbeing of the native people. Young men fed up with white rule would organize and gather whatever weapons they had to expel the Wazungu (the foreigners) and achieve Uhuru (independence). The Mau Mau Rebellion would rapidly grow, as the Mau Mau allied with the agrarian trade unions in Settler plantations as well as those local chiefs who had either switched sides or had chosen not to collaborate with the Settler government. Eventually, these groups would raise the flag of a newborn nation; Kirenya, named for Mt. Kirenya (known as Kenya to the Settlers). The Ostafrikan Askaris would again return to Kenia, capturing Nairobi, and the Kenia-Uganda Railway, areas in which most of the Kenian Settlers live, and placing those areas under strict martial law. However, the Mau Mau remain, and secret cells continue to organize in Nairobi.

**Modern Kirenia:**

The Revolutionary Afrikan State of the Kirenyan People is organized primarily through the Mau Mau Central Committee, a clandestine group of military personnel that oversees the actions of the Mau Mau armies and supervises the civilian aspects of the government. The Mongozi Mkuu (referred to in English sources as the General Secretary or Great Leader) is elected from the Mau Mau Central Committee to lead the armed forces and make final decisions on policy. Economic policy and the allocation of resources is overseen by Kirenya’s trade union confederation. Two other bodies, the Council of Chiefs (consisting of a group of hereditary chieftains representing various tribes) and the Popular Council (a group of democratically elected officials), oversee legislative policy and serve an advisory role to the Mongozi Mkuu and the Central Committee. The Ideology of Kirenya emphasizes not Pan-Afrikan Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism as well as the liberation of all the peoples of Afrika from the oppressive rule of western capitalism. The ruling clique within the Mau Mau Central Committee, led by Mongozi Mkuu Dedan Kimathi and his somewhat loyal second in command Field Marshal Musa Mwariama, advocates primarily for anti-imperialism and pan-afrikanism, seeing socialism as unnecessary and disruptive to native Afrikan ways of organizing. Under Dedan Kimathi, Kirenya engages in supporting and cooperating with other Pan-Afrikan movements, most notably the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Party for the Revolution, a revolutionary pan-Afrikan and anti-colonialist armed underground movement in Ostafrika that works with the Mau Mau armies in trying to defeat the Askari collaborators and the remnants of white rule in Afrika.