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The Egg that Hatched a Beautiful Girl
Listen: A man left his hut and went into the plains near his home. There he found an ostrich sleeping. He scared it off and found that she was sleeping on an egg. The man took the egg and tied it in a piece of cloth that he was carrying in his bag. He took the egg home. There he put it in a dry pot into which he poured some oil. The egg ate this oil for three days. And then the man replenished the pot with some fresh oil. Again the egg ate the oil for three days and again the pot was replenished. The egg was now growing bigger and bigger and on the ninth day the egg broke and a beautiful baby girl emerged and lay on the bottom of the pot. The man put more oil and this time he covered the pot. After every three days he uncovered the pot and put more oil so that one day all the oil he had in the hut was finished. He slaughtered three rams and put their oil in gourds ready for the same purpose.
One day he found that the girl was growing very fast. She was becoming too big for the pot and so he changed that pot and put her in a bigger pot. He poured more oil and stayed for six days and when he went to check on his girl, he found that the girl was trying to get out. He took her and put her on the floor. And this girl walked and sat by the fireside. She was very beautiful and the man was feeling very happy. She became like a daughter to him.
It was after many, many moons and the man had come to love this girl very much. Everybody who saw her loved her. And then there was talk of circumcising her because she had become a big girl. The circumcision season Came and the man took his daughter away to be circumcised with the other girls.
Now this man had a wife and she was feeling jealous and angry because the girl was loved more than she was: ‘What is this animal from the plains that is loved more than I?’ She Was not going to be nice to her. The girl stayed for some time with the other girls who were circumcised with her. Their doctor came to see them and gave them advice on how mature women should behave. When the-convalescent period was over, the girls went home. Her father (she called the man father) was pleased to see her. He said to his wife:
‘Single Daughter, where are you?’ This man would never eat anything before he knew that the girl was at home and all right. There was no answer from Single Daughter.
‘So and so, where is Single Daughter?’ He asked his wife.
‘I don’t know,’ she answered.
On hearing this he took his things and went towards the plains. He had not gone far before he saw the girl sauntering towards the middle of the plain. He called:
The man was hurrying: ‘Single Daughter, Single Daughter, come back.’
‘Father, I cannot come back, your wife abused me. She called me an egg picked up by the roadside. I go back to where I belong.’
There was a river and when the girl plunged into the water, she came out turned into an ostrich. The ostrich ran and joined the others. The man went home angry and disappointed. He beat his wife and sent her home to her own people. He never married again after that.
Listen: A man left his hut and went into the plains near his home. There he found an ostrich sleeping. He scared it off and found that she was sleeping on an egg. The man took the egg and tied it in a piece of cloth that he was carrying in his bag. He took the egg home. There he put it in a dry pot into which he poured some oil. The egg ate this oil for three days. And then the man replenished the pot with some fresh oil. Again the egg ate the oil for three days and again the pot was replenished. The egg was now growing bigger and bigger and on the ninth day the egg broke and a beautiful baby girl emerged and lay on the bottom of the pot. The man put more oil and this time he covered the pot. After every three days he uncovered the pot and put more oil so that one day all the oil he had in the hut was finished. He slaughtered three rams and put their oil in gourds ready for the same purpose.
One day he found that the girl was growing very fast. She was becoming too big for the pot and so he changed that pot and put her in a bigger pot. He poured more oil and stayed for six days and when he went to check on his girl, he found that the girl was trying to get out. He took her and put her on the floor. And this girl walked and sat by the fireside. She was very beautiful and the man was feeling very happy. She became like a daughter to him.
It was after many, many moons and the man had come to love this girl very much. Everybody who saw her loved her. And then there was talk of circumcising her because she had become a big girl. The circumcision season Came and the man took his daughter away to be circumcised with the other girls.
Now this man had a wife and she was feeling jealous and angry because the girl was loved more than she was: ‘What is this animal from the plains that is loved more than I?’ She Was not going to be nice to her. The girl stayed for some time with the other girls who were circumcised with her. Their doctor came to see them and gave them advice on how mature women should behave. When the-convalescent period was over, the girls went home. Her father (she called the man father) was pleased to see her. He said to his wife:
And so the girl stayed at home while the woman killed herself with work. Nobody was allowed to send the girl anywhere. She was a special girl. One day when the man was out in the fields on a time when the woman was grinding maize and making porridge in a large pot to be drunk throughout the season, she said to this beauty:
The girl was very angry and immediately she stood and walked off towards the plains. Her father came home and called for her.
‘Single Daughter, where are you?’ This man would never eat anything before he knew that the girl was at home and all right. There was no answer from Single Daughter.
‘So and so, where is Single Daughter?’ He asked his wife.
‘I don’t know,’ she answered.
On hearing this he took his things and went towards the plains. He had not gone far before he saw the girl sauntering towards the middle of the plain. He called:
‘Father, I cannot come back, your wife abused me. She called me an egg picked up by the roadside. I go back to where I belong.’
The man was hurrying: ‘Single Daughter, Single Daughter, come back.’
‘Father, I cannot come back, your wife abused me. She called me an egg picked up by the roadside. I go back to where I belong.’
There was a river and when the girl plunged into the water, she came out turned into an ostrich. The ostrich ran and joined the others. The man went home angry and disappointed. He beat his wife and sent her home to her own people. He never married again after that.
Who took The Captain's Life?
Her Death made Popular Headlines in 1978/79.Who remembers?It seems like Yesterday.
Where were You then?
She was an Army Captain and was found dead in Her House at Nairobi's Ngei Estate on Thursday,30th March 1978.
Her Body was recovered in the Bathroom after Colleagues broke the Door to Her House.
I remember Her Death gripped The Country for an Entire Year from the moment She was found.
Her Death made Popular Headlines in 1978/79.Who remembers?It seems like Yesterday.
Where were You then?
She was an Army Captain and was found dead in Her House at Nairobi's Ngei Estate on Thursday,30th March 1978.
Her Body was recovered in the Bathroom after Colleagues broke the Door to Her House.
I remember Her Death gripped The Country for an Entire Year from the moment She was found.
Tanganyika Heller
A bronze ½ and 1 Heller coin were introduced in 1904, followed by bronze 5 Heller and the holed, cupro-nickel 10 Heller in 1908. In 1913, holed, cupro-nickel 5 Heller were also introduced (as shown above).
The 1916 issues were minted at Tabora as a wartime emergency coinage. A total of 302,940 brass 5 Heller were issued. In addition, both copper (325,000) and brass (1,307,760) 20 Heller coins were produced.
now you know why wadau huita pesa zao Hela
A bronze ½ and 1 Heller coin were introduced in 1904, followed by bronze 5 Heller and the holed, cupro-nickel 10 Heller in 1908. In 1913, holed, cupro-nickel 5 Heller were also introduced (as shown above).
The 1916 issues were minted at Tabora as a wartime emergency coinage. A total of 302,940 brass 5 Heller were issued. In addition, both copper (325,000) and brass (1,307,760) 20 Heller coins were produced.
now you know why wadau huita pesa zao Hela
RAWSON MACHARIA
Rawson Mbugua Macharia (b. 1911, d. 5 December 2008, aged 96) was the key prosecution witness at the trial of the Kapenguria Six, who included Jomo Kenyatta.
Kenyatta and the others were Kenyan nationalists jailed for managing Mau Mau.
Testimony
The six defendants, Kenyatta, Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei and Achieng Oneko were arrested in 1952, and tried in 1952–53 for the offence of managing Mau Mau, then a proscribed society.
Macharia testified at this trail that in March 1950, he had taken one of the Mau Mau oaths at Kenyatta's hands. He further claimed that the oath-taking involved stripping naked and drinking human blood.Macharia's submissions were the only evidence of a direct link between Kenyatta and Mau Mau produced before the court. Mau Mau was proscribed in August 1950, so, even had the claims been true, it is unclear that they proved Kenyatta's membership, let alone management, of a proscribed organisation.
Perjury affidavit
In 1958, Macharia swore an affidavit to the effect that he and six others had perjured themselves at the trial. The prosecution witnesses, he claimed, had been coached, and some of them were rewarded with plots of land at the Coast. He had himself been offered a university course in public administration at Exeter University, protection for his family, and a government job on his return from the UK The affidavit was backed by a letter, apparently from the Attorney-General at the time of the trial, detailing the promised benefits.
So it transpired that the convictions had been obtained by a trial at which it was conceded by the government that the witnesses had been coached (to better enable them to stand up to hostile cross-examination), that they had been paid (as compensation for loss of livelihood), and that Macharia had both lied at the trial and received benefits.
Macharia was later to write a book: The Truth about the Trial of Jomo Kenyatta.
During the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, the colonial government was so short of evidence with which to convict Mzee Kenyatta. To solve this problem they turned to Rawson Macharia described as a "frail little shopkeeper" by Time Magazine.
Rawson Macharia as the main prosecution witness he testified that Mzee was his Mau Mau oath administrator. Macharia also gave descriptions of how the oathing process was.
Macharia explained in detail how they were made to drink blood naked, and how they made ritual movements on banana leaves.
As a reward for this false testimony and subsequent conviction of Mzee Kenyatta, the colonial government rewarded Rawson Macharia with a trip to England, and a scholarship to undertake a 2-year public administration course.
Six years later after Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was jailed, Macharia swore an affidavit. In the affidavit, he claimed that the colonial government had paid him to lie. He had been paid £1,500.A twist which was never unraveled because on the other side many believed that Kenyatta was a colonial project and that it was evidently true because his term was more comfortable compared with the others of the kapenguria six when he was transferred to a 3 bedroomed house and had the comforts of life more than a prisoner.
When the colonial government was challenged, they admitted that they paid Macharia, who like Mzee who was born in Gatundu, a retainer of £29 per month, but they insisted that the payment was for him to testify, not lie.
Personal life
Macharia was married to Edith Mwihaki, who died in 1999. His home village was Muthurumbi in Thika District, near Gatundu town. His home was located only five kilometres from Kenyatta's home.
He died after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing Thika Road on 5 December 2008
Rawson Mbugua Macharia (b. 1911, d. 5 December 2008, aged 96) was the key prosecution witness at the trial of the Kapenguria Six, who included Jomo Kenyatta.
Kenyatta and the others were Kenyan nationalists jailed for managing Mau Mau.
Testimony
The six defendants, Kenyatta, Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei and Achieng Oneko were arrested in 1952, and tried in 1952–53 for the offence of managing Mau Mau, then a proscribed society.
Macharia testified at this trail that in March 1950, he had taken one of the Mau Mau oaths at Kenyatta's hands. He further claimed that the oath-taking involved stripping naked and drinking human blood.Macharia's submissions were the only evidence of a direct link between Kenyatta and Mau Mau produced before the court. Mau Mau was proscribed in August 1950, so, even had the claims been true, it is unclear that they proved Kenyatta's membership, let alone management, of a proscribed organisation.
Perjury affidavit
In 1958, Macharia swore an affidavit to the effect that he and six others had perjured themselves at the trial. The prosecution witnesses, he claimed, had been coached, and some of them were rewarded with plots of land at the Coast. He had himself been offered a university course in public administration at Exeter University, protection for his family, and a government job on his return from the UK The affidavit was backed by a letter, apparently from the Attorney-General at the time of the trial, detailing the promised benefits.
So it transpired that the convictions had been obtained by a trial at which it was conceded by the government that the witnesses had been coached (to better enable them to stand up to hostile cross-examination), that they had been paid (as compensation for loss of livelihood), and that Macharia had both lied at the trial and received benefits.
Macharia was later to write a book: The Truth about the Trial of Jomo Kenyatta.
During the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, the colonial government was so short of evidence with which to convict Mzee Kenyatta. To solve this problem they turned to Rawson Macharia described as a "frail little shopkeeper" by Time Magazine.
Rawson Macharia as the main prosecution witness he testified that Mzee was his Mau Mau oath administrator. Macharia also gave descriptions of how the oathing process was.
Macharia explained in detail how they were made to drink blood naked, and how they made ritual movements on banana leaves.
As a reward for this false testimony and subsequent conviction of Mzee Kenyatta, the colonial government rewarded Rawson Macharia with a trip to England, and a scholarship to undertake a 2-year public administration course.
Six years later after Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was jailed, Macharia swore an affidavit. In the affidavit, he claimed that the colonial government had paid him to lie. He had been paid £1,500.A twist which was never unraveled because on the other side many believed that Kenyatta was a colonial project and that it was evidently true because his term was more comfortable compared with the others of the kapenguria six when he was transferred to a 3 bedroomed house and had the comforts of life more than a prisoner.
When the colonial government was challenged, they admitted that they paid Macharia, who like Mzee who was born in Gatundu, a retainer of £29 per month, but they insisted that the payment was for him to testify, not lie.
Personal life
Macharia was married to Edith Mwihaki, who died in 1999. His home village was Muthurumbi in Thika District, near Gatundu town. His home was located only five kilometres from Kenyatta's home.
He died after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing Thika Road on 5 December 2008
Murang'a Chief Karuri wa Gakure who saved his people from smallpox in the late 1890s.
From 1892 or thereabouts, a smallpox pandemic hit parts of central Kenya, Nairobi, Ukambani, and Rift Valley.
But as smallpox decimated parts of Kikuyuland from 1895, one area on the slopes of Aberdares was spared. This was the Chief Karuri’s territory after he managed to quarantine his people by deterring entry.
When missionaries arrived into Karuri territory, he not only provided them with land but allowed them to erect a church — and within 18 months, they had six stations in central Kenya.
The Consolata missionaries baptised him “Joseph"
“It was about this time that smallpox broke out in the country, and for the time being all my other troubles were relegated to the background,” recalled John Boyes, a hunter who married a Kikuyu girl and stayed in Murang’a.
He also christened himself “King of the Agikuyu”
smallpox had killed so many people in southern Kikuyu with most retreating to parts of Murang’a and Nyeri.Thats when the white settlers first arrived they thought the southern Kikuyu territory of Kiambu was previously unoccupied.
Its alleged that the only place that escaped the smallpox epidemic was Chief Karuri’s territory.
We also know that smallpox had been brought into the interior by travellers and traders — and later on by railway workers.
It is recorded in history that the Tuthu area did not get a single case of smallpox because Chief Karuri deterred any foreigners from entering his village. Apparently, it worked.
He poured some black powder across all footpaths leading to his village and spread a rumour that if “anyone looked at that poison, they died immediately”.
There was no quarantine in other places like Mombasa and many people died...
From 1892 or thereabouts, a smallpox pandemic hit parts of central Kenya, Nairobi, Ukambani, and Rift Valley.
But as smallpox decimated parts of Kikuyuland from 1895, one area on the slopes of Aberdares was spared. This was the Chief Karuri’s territory after he managed to quarantine his people by deterring entry.
When missionaries arrived into Karuri territory, he not only provided them with land but allowed them to erect a church — and within 18 months, they had six stations in central Kenya.
The Consolata missionaries baptised him “Joseph"
“It was about this time that smallpox broke out in the country, and for the time being all my other troubles were relegated to the background,” recalled John Boyes, a hunter who married a Kikuyu girl and stayed in Murang’a.
He also christened himself “King of the Agikuyu”
smallpox had killed so many people in southern Kikuyu with most retreating to parts of Murang’a and Nyeri.Thats when the white settlers first arrived they thought the southern Kikuyu territory of Kiambu was previously unoccupied.
Its alleged that the only place that escaped the smallpox epidemic was Chief Karuri’s territory.
We also know that smallpox had been brought into the interior by travellers and traders — and later on by railway workers.
It is recorded in history that the Tuthu area did not get a single case of smallpox because Chief Karuri deterred any foreigners from entering his village. Apparently, it worked.
He poured some black powder across all footpaths leading to his village and spread a rumour that if “anyone looked at that poison, they died immediately”.
There was no quarantine in other places like Mombasa and many people died...
In 1928 the Prince of Wales visited Nairobi.
3 eminent Kikuyu chiefs: Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu, Wambugu wa Mathangania, & Njiri wa Karanja. All received gifts from the Prince.
Joseph Kangethe, president of the Kikuyu Central Association wrote an essay describing the occasion.
Young Jomo Kenyatta was there, too. As editor of the journal Mwigwithania he wrote a report. He thought the convocation was like 'ituika', the ceremony when young men took over power from their elders.
3 eminent Kikuyu chiefs: Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu, Wambugu wa Mathangania, & Njiri wa Karanja. All received gifts from the Prince.
Joseph Kangethe, president of the Kikuyu Central Association wrote an essay describing the occasion.
Young Jomo Kenyatta was there, too. As editor of the journal Mwigwithania he wrote a report. He thought the convocation was like 'ituika', the ceremony when young men took over power from their elders.
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Elder Lister
And yet our shifo Jayden locked his people up and allowed foreigners in and out.
Is it true that nothing grows where Dedan Kimathi’s Blood was spilled???
A bare patch of land in the middle of a vast tea plantation in Karunaini, Nyeri.
It is said that it is this precise location where Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi was carried to and placed, after he was shot a few meters away by colonial guards
As he lay in his makeshift stretcher waiting to be transported to the Chief's camp, his blood seeped into the ground. Painfully and slowly
A bare patch of land in the middle of a vast tea plantation in Karunaini, Nyeri.
It is said that it is this precise location where Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi was carried to and placed, after he was shot a few meters away by colonial guards
As he lay in his makeshift stretcher waiting to be transported to the Chief's camp, his blood seeped into the ground. Painfully and slowly
Many years ago, Mt. Kilimambogo erupted and the viscous lava found its way to the nearby Athi river. The lava flowed along the river valley for 300km, shifting the river and creating Nyika Plattaeu.
Athi river flows right next to Yatta plateau throughout the plateau's 300km length. The flat-topped 100m high Yatta forms a natural boundary between Kitui & Makueni counties.
The natural 'funnel' created by Yatta plateau and the availability of water made this a favourable route for Kamba long distance traders in their movements between the coast and the interior of Kenya.
The rivers of Nairobi (Mathare, Ngong, Nairobi, Ruiru & Mbagathi river) join up near Kilimambogo to form Athi river which flows south easterly for 300km next to Yatta plateau. The plateau ends near Tsavo after which the river turns east for Malindi where it drains into the ocean
Athi river flows right next to Yatta plateau throughout the plateau's 300km length. The flat-topped 100m high Yatta forms a natural boundary between Kitui & Makueni counties.
The natural 'funnel' created by Yatta plateau and the availability of water made this a favourable route for Kamba long distance traders in their movements between the coast and the interior of Kenya.
The rivers of Nairobi (Mathare, Ngong, Nairobi, Ruiru & Mbagathi river) join up near Kilimambogo to form Athi river which flows south easterly for 300km next to Yatta plateau. The plateau ends near Tsavo after which the river turns east for Malindi where it drains into the ocean
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Elder Lister
weka hekaya ya ule morio alimpiga risasi and what happened to him.Is it true that nothing grows where Dedan Kimathi’s Blood was spilled???
A bare patch of land in the middle of a vast tea plantation in Karunaini, Nyeri.
It is said that it is this precise location where Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi was carried to and placed, after he was shot a few meters away by colonial guards
As he lay in his makeshift stretcher waiting to be transported to the Chief's camp, his blood seeped into the ground. Painfully and slowly
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Moris Gachamba Kenyan Plane Builder
In 1968-9 Kenyan inventor Morris Gachamba constructed a fixed-wing airplane at his shop in Karatina. The engine was from a motorcycle; the metal panels were made from repurposed tin signs. He called it Kenya One.
In the last months of 1969 Gachamba towed the airplane to a landing strip near Nyeri. The plane did make it into the air--but Gachamba was obliged to make a crash landing when the engine overheated.
The Kenyan writer NgugiWaThiongo used Gachamba to illustrate how wananchi could create their own technologies.
In 1968-9 Kenyan inventor Morris Gachamba constructed a fixed-wing airplane at his shop in Karatina. The engine was from a motorcycle; the metal panels were made from repurposed tin signs. He called it Kenya One.
In the last months of 1969 Gachamba towed the airplane to a landing strip near Nyeri. The plane did make it into the air--but Gachamba was obliged to make a crash landing when the engine overheated.
The Kenyan writer NgugiWaThiongo used Gachamba to illustrate how wananchi could create their own technologies.