Kenyan Historians by Maina wa Kinyatti Your silence after my arrest means You have made an agreement with the dictator You have betrayed those ideas our people Cherish One day Our people will rise And with anger and bitterness Ask you Where were you When national independence was betrayed When foreign military bases were built In the country When workers and peasants Reduced to slavery Their life clothed in poverty Their homes flooded With endless tears of oppression You shall have nothing to tell them Like a dead donkey They shall drag you through the streets Wilst they sing war songs 3 February 1987 Kamiti M.S. Prison