text:  The gravity of what your great-grandmother had done, the amount of struggle she'd been through, the fact that she'd been an anti-colonialist rebel, essentially, had been part of an armed struggle. Did you understand what that meant? No, not really. But at that time, she was just like my grandma. And, you know, she was just like having all these people coming to see her all the time. But I knew she was in the Mau Mau and everything. We also read about them in school.