At Mageuzi Hub, Mzee Mugo shared stories of courage and conviction. We heard from Philo Ikinya and Dr. Mihal Mwangola, voices that have carried culture, resistance and thought for decades. For many younger people, it was the first time they were encountering these stories.

What a generation forgets, it struggles to carry forward. A generation that does not know the people and ideas that helped build what it inherits will find it difficult to build consciously.

“My mindset shifted from ‘Why was I not taught this?’ to ‘I’ll learn and teach them.'”

Lucy, University of Nairobi student and Lapid alumna

On Madaraka Day, the day Kenya commemorates the attainment of internal self-rule, the journey culminated at Karura Forest in an intergenerational gathering to honour women whose courage helped expand the freedoms and possibilities later generations inherited.

They organised. They resisted. They educated. They protected land. They shaped public life. They widened what became possible for others.

Honouring their lives left us with a more demanding understanding of leadership.