I had suggested Mekatilili because she was taken to Busia and travelled back to fight.
Or better still, we drop the European habit of naming institutions after people and name them after their locations. Uganda's national airport, referral hospital and university are named after the places they're located. There's something that does to the mind. It prevents focus on people and unnecessary wars over who matters and who doesn't.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport should be renamed Dedan Kimathi International Airport.
It is time Kenya stopped immortalising collaborators, traitors and colonial puppets while erasing our real heroes.
Dedan Kimathi lived in the forest, fought, bled and ultimately gave his life for Kenya's independence. His sacrifice was paid for with blood, not political convenience.
Kenyatta did nothing but plunder the nation he claimed to lead.
He even hunted down and killed surviving MauMau soldiers if they refused to surrender to him.
One was a traitor. One was a hero.
Choose which one we immortalise.