TBT Maombi edition
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Mwalimu-G
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*Drink Amario and know why birds fly*
There used to be a fellow called Fai Omar Amario. What was his real name again, Njoroge wa What? I can't remember.
He lived in Naivasha. By some accounts, he was rich. By other accounts, nearly everything he owned had come from someone's blood. He was probably the most infamous carjacker of our generation. But he also owned a brewery. Amario Vodka, Amario Blue Moon, Amario this and that. The tagline on his brews was "You will know why birds fly". The drinks were so strong that people would take a sip and shoot out of the bar, running towards Kinangop, while screaming at unseen aliens to "please stop, I just want to talk!". Those days, you would drive through Naivasha and youths had red eyes popping out of their sockets like they were acting a zombie movie, all their trousers wet. You see Amario's products defied the bladder. You drank and it passed on to the feet. And they used to cause heavy duty diep. People were walking around with a line of diep behind them!
You will know why birds fly.
Now Amario used to do public interviews for a wife, after divorcing the previous. You know women from East of Migaa. They would fill the interview in large numbers. Nobody ever asked where the previous wives were. Turns out Amario would kill them and bury them right under the floor of his mansion. When the police later gathered the courage to go after Amario (he seemed to have had strange protection, some say a Nigerian dibia had done things), they found his ex wives resting in pieces under the floor, alongside a huge bounty of motorvehicle parts. In the mansion where he lived!
Those days, even the police were so helpless that they adviced vehicle owners of certain brands to avoid the Naivasha route. Amario and his gang would pursue you and pluck you out of the road like a biscuit. Your car would be in pieces shortly. Nobody knows why Amario was never arrested for all the things he did. One day, he got word that some two accountants at his Kerugoya vodka depot had tinkered with his books and stolen several million shillings. He asked them to wait for him so he could drive to Kerugoya to talk. They waited. Their bodies would later be found in the forest with several six-inch nails sunk deep into their heads. They now knew why birds flew.
Believe it or not, Amario was an alumnus of Starehe Boys Centre! Now, there are three schools in this country that have such a strong and vibrant old boys networks that they become school tribes; Maseno, Alliance and Starehe. They are families. They also have very strict seniority creeds, where those who went before you will forever remain "Senior" in all communication. The schools would routinely keep tabs on their old students and get involved in their issues. No manager was more adept at this than Geoffrey Griffin, the Starehe Center supremo. He tried helping Amario. He would invite him to meetings. Amario would come having drunk some of his brews, and would ask Griffin if he wanted a certain type of car so he could dash out and grab him one from the road! Exasperated to the end of his wits, Griffin once told the media that he had produced the finest gentlemen in the country, then he had produced Amario, testimony that every production machine sometimes churned out damaged goods! He knew why birds flew.
The day Amario died, the sigh of relief across the country was so loud you could hear it from Fiji. More of his houses were broken and more people were resting in pieces in the floors. More stolen cars everywhere. More trouble.
Whatever you do this year, avoid any temptations to know why birds fly.
Did you know that Kanda Bongoman was initially not a musician? He travelled to Kenya for the first time and discovered how much we loved music. Before then Moni Mambo, a Zairean beauty products salesman, tried his hand at music in Kenya and became s star. So Kanda capitolised on that hence his success. His songs are for show not for conveying a message. Take for example "Inde, Inde" he sings two or three words, instruments take three quarters of the song then keeps on repeating Inde, Inde. This is common with all his songs for he's just a stage performer, not a musician. He has never travelled extensively like other musicians and nothing much is known about him before and after those epic trips to Kenya.
Those who had an opportunity to listen to KBC Swahili Service back in the day, can vividly recall the 'KBC Salaams Club'. Man! I honestly loved those salaams when names such as:- Moses Shotoo Omunyololo, Okusimba Okunyanyi, Sura Mbili James Kiango Momanyi, Moses Angungu Ovamba, Rimba Mbango Mbuvi, John Ndicu, Francis Kadenge Omwana Wa Leah & a host of others were read & were very synonymous with the same back then.
Fans used to have Salaams clubs all over the country. A Salaams card used to go for Kshs. 20/= & the presenter could shout out names of those who were indicated there in and at the tail end of it was: Ujumbe, KBC ndio nusu ya kuonana, msafiri ni yule aliyeko bandarini or tukutane likizoni ama mwisho wa mwaka
Who remembers this?
Fans used to have Salaams clubs all over the country. A Salaams card used to go for Kshs. 20/= & the presenter could shout out names of those who were indicated there in and at the tail end of it was: Ujumbe, KBC ndio nusu ya kuonana, msafiri ni yule aliyeko bandarini or tukutane likizoni ama mwisho wa mwaka
Who remembers this?
Kasaman
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German machine
bigDog
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QuadroK4000
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No one but you and how do they do that.
Naming of Komarock in Kenya. ......
It is said a foreigner happened to have ventured those sides and got lost. He came by a Kamba lady walking with her baby on the back. He stopped to ask her where he was. The baby on seeing a stranger got scared and started crying. The mother not understanding what the white man was asking her, turned to her crying baby Loko, and in her native language tried to get the baby quiet..."Koma Loko" (sleep Loko) she told the baby as she soothed her to sleep.
The foreigner thought she had given him the name of the place and just to confirm if it was true asked the lady "Komarock"? The lady thought the foreigner was asking if the kid was sleeping and thus shook her head to the affirmative giving rise to the name Komarock!
Which other do you know of?
It is said a foreigner happened to have ventured those sides and got lost. He came by a Kamba lady walking with her baby on the back. He stopped to ask her where he was. The baby on seeing a stranger got scared and started crying. The mother not understanding what the white man was asking her, turned to her crying baby Loko, and in her native language tried to get the baby quiet..."Koma Loko" (sleep Loko) she told the baby as she soothed her to sleep.
The foreigner thought she had given him the name of the place and just to confirm if it was true asked the lady "Komarock"? The lady thought the foreigner was asking if the kid was sleeping and thus shook her head to the affirmative giving rise to the name Komarock!
Which other do you know of?
Mwendawazimu
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Joy bringers
**sikumbuki spelling ya hiyo show
Mwalimu-G
Elder Lister
They used to bore me to death since eventually they came to be dominated by the named characters. Na kuna mrembo alikuwaga Total West End, Nakuru.