Sori Bay, Karungu the location of one of the first freedom battles in Kenya and Tanzania. Ougo Ratego, a Karungu war leader, had heard of Maji Maji and its defeat in the nearby Tanganyika He had also heard of the defeat of Luos and allies in Tanganyika, but he was not discouraged
Hardly did he know that he would not fight this particular enemy, but his kinsman, the British. A case of being between the Devil and the deep blue sea. In 1908, the British came to fly the Union Jack in Karungu to stop the German advance and Ougo said, "No! Upon my dead body."
And so it happened. He and his hitherto formidable Karungu warriors were shot dead in the waters, for they had sought refuge there believing, like their Maji Maji counterparts, that the firepower would be quenched there.
Ougo collapsed and died from bullet wounds under an otho, date tree. And then came WWI and it was the turn of the Germans to die. Their ships, the Konnigsberg were sunk in these deep waters, from where Ougo once fought. The ships are still there in the deeps, but no one cares.
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