resting_place death_date death_place children birth_place nationality ethnicity name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
kiambogo village , timau 1 january 1989 ukambani , kenya colony 9 tigania , eastern province , kenya colony kenyan meru '' ` musa mwariama '' ' 1 january 1928 musa mwariama
 musa m ' kirigwa muchiri freedom fighter
musa mwariama

field marshal musa mwariama -lrb- 1928 -- 1989 -rrb- was a leader of the mau mau in meru and the highest-ranking mau mau who survived the war in the forests and jungles of central kenya from its inception to independence without being killed or captured .
together with dedan kimathi and waruhiu itote -lrb- general china -rrb- they comprised the core mau mau leadership .
by the time he left his bases in mount kenya and nyambene hills on the equator , he had about 2,000 fighters who had survived operation anvil in kenya .
he was decorated with the national order of elder of the burning spear -lrb- ebs -rrb- after independence .
the most famous photograph of him is with president jomo kenyatta on attainment of uhuru -lrb- independence -rrb- in 1963 , and most of the postwar mau mau video clips show him inspecting a mau mau guard of honour or with president jomo kenyatta .
