Mununga

Mununga is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province. An alternate name for this area is "Mununca".

Mununga is in central Kenya, Muranga county.¹ It sits in the Kigumo constituency, inside the Kinyona location. Mununga is a Kikuyu name meaning "smelling place." Mununga was known as Gitegenye, but later in the 1950's, received its name 'mununga' from the foul smell of unburied, decomposing bodies of anti-British resistance troops. Said troops allegedly met their terrible death at the hands of Chief Njiiri wa Karanja; a royal and right man to the British Empire, who fought the Mau Mau resistance with all forces at his disposal.² Mununga was one of rebellions' "bedrooms," where it is believed most Mau Mau generals held their warfare meetings here before retreating back into the Aberdare forest.³⁴⁵

Mununga is made up of villages like Kamahiga, Mahehe, Mukoma Gathaiti, Muchagatha and Kariti. It's one of the towns that MauMau road have slashed through making it a fast growing town in Muranga county.

The Irati river, Gitaigua and Maragua serves Mununga with pure mineral water from the mountain of Aberdare.⁶ Gacharage tea factory is also located in Mununga.