Seven Bearded Sisters

The Seven Bearded Sisters was a term given to seven Kenyan opposition members of parliament (MPs) after Daniel arap Moi assumed power in 1978 following the death of Jomo Kenyatta. The seven were Abuya Abuya (Kitutu East), Onyango Midika (Nyando now Muhoroni), Mashengu wa Mwachofi (Wundanyi), James Orengo, Lawrence Sifuna (Bumula), Chibule wa Tsuma (Kaloleni) and Koigi wa Wamwere (Nakuru North, now Subukia). Others closely associated with the seven were George Anyona, Chelagat Mutai and Wasike Ndobi.

Origin of the name

The name was coined by the then Kenyan attorney general Charles Njonjo in 1981. He picked it from the 1975 book The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World they Shaped by Anthony Sampson.[1] The book was about how seven of the biggest oil companies in the world conspired to overthrow governments. Njonjo used the word 'bearded' to draw a comparison with Karl Marx, as he saw these MPs to uphold Marxist ideologies.[2]

Grievances

The MPs were left wing backbenchers who had been vocal in opposing most of the government's policies, especially what they saw as the government's close association with Western powers. The group was unofficial and most of them only knew each other through the motions they proposed and debated in parliament. They garnered most of their support in the student bodies of public universities, especially the powerful SONU (Student Organization of Nairobi University).

Most of the seven served time in detention and/ or went to exile. Orengo went to exile in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia in the 1980s to escape the oppressive KANU regime. [3]

Wamwere was sent to jail in 1982 for accusing the Moi government of ethnic discrimination and corruption. After his release in 1984, he went to exile in Uganda then later to Norway.[4]

Legacy

The MPs were the first in post-independent Kenya to openly and vocally defy the government in parliament. They laid the foundation for the fight for multi party democracy that would lead to the repeal of section 2A of the Kenyan constitution in 1992.

References

  1. ^ KWAMA, KENNETH. "Kenya's 'seven bearded sisters' fight for multi-partyism". The Standard. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ^ "It was a huge mistake to abandon the Westminster model for our Parliament | the Star, Kenya". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Orengo lifts the lid on his 43 years of hard-tackle politics". Nation.co.ke. 5 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Further reading

  • wa Wamwere, Koigi. I Refuse to Die (Seven Stories Press, 2003), ISBN 978-1583226155
  • Hornby, Charles. Kenya: A History Since Independence (I. B. Tauris, 2012), ISBN 978-1780765013

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