Write a character sketch of dedan kimathi?
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Kimathi is credited with leading efforts to create formal military structures within the Mau Mau, and convening a war council in 1953. He along with Musa Mwariama and Muthoni Kirima was one of three Field Marshals. His capture in 1956 and execution the next year led to the decline of the uprising against the British colonial government.[1] Before his execution, he wrote that he was "...so busy and so happy preparing for heaven tomorrow."[2]
Kenyan nationalists view him as the heroic figurehead of the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule, while the British government saw him as a terrorist.[3] Despite being viewed with disdain by the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi governments, Kimathi and his fellow Mau Mau rebels have been officially recognised as heroes in the struggle for Kenyan independence since the Mwai Kibaki administration, culminating in the unveiling of a Kimathi statue in 2007.[4] This was reinforced by the passage of a new Constitution in 2010 calling for recognition of national heroes.