Search engine giant google has honoured Kenyan freedom fighter Mnyazi (Mekatilili) wa Mwenza with a special doodle on it's homepage.

Mekatilili who was from the Mijikenda community  now becomes the fourth Kenyan to be honoured by google after Wangari Mathai, Margaret Ogola, and Kimani Maruge.

Among the many things that Mekatilili is remembered for is the Mepoho’s prophecy which was about the coming of strange people who had hair like sisal fibres and moved in flying vessels as well as those moving on water and land.

Every August 9, there is an annual celebration in her honour at the Malindi Cultural Festival, this will however not be possible this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic being experienced worldwide.

Mekatilili's leadership contributed to uprisings by the Giriama against the British in 1913 and 1914, and despite her multiple arrests and imprisonments, her campaign of resistance proved successful. This led to  British relaxing control of the region, effectively granting the demands for which Menza and the Giriama had tirelessly fought.

She was born in the Giriama village of Mtsara wa Tsatsu in coastal Kenya during the mid-19th century.  She travelled from village to village spreading messages of opposition, performing the ecstatic native dance of kifudu to draw large crowds and then unleashing her powerful oratory skills to garner support.