TBT Maombi edition

Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
A lot of Agïküyü people, according to ethnologists, have Maasai blood and vice versa.

It is said that these two communities used to raid each other, and often women and girls were the trophies of war. The Maasai, according to anthropologists, over the years came to the realisation that Agïküyü women were generally fertile.

A school of ethnologists opines that the strict milk, meat and blood diet of the Maasai did not augur well for fertility of their women.

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Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
Jomo Kenyatta orders record breaking athlete Henry Rono and boxer Steve Muchoki to be given 8 grade cows each.

The gifts never arrived.

When they asked PS for culture and social services where their cows were he scolded them for "introducing politics to sports"

It did not start today.
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Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
KPU deputy party leader Bildad Kaggia gives a KPU sign outside a Kisii court after being sentenced to one year in prison for holding an unlicensed meeting at Sondu in April 1968.

Trouble started when Kaggia arrived with his wife for what he described as a short holiday, and took up residence in the home of Ishmael Oluoch.

Within two hours, three policemen also arrived, and mannerlessly took up residence in the same house as Kaggia, turning the sitting room their bedroom. They had been sent by the government to keep an eye on Kaggia even if it meant living under the same roof as him.

After spending two nights in Oluoch's house, Kaggia left for Sondu market to open a KPU branch . The policemen also left the house and followed him there.
On arrival Kaggia and his party which included Gogo Ochok, were ushered into a shop to address a crowd of around 60 people. Kaggia talked about free education, medical treatment and land. He also urged people to vote for KPU.
However 15 minutes into his speech, the police ordered him to stop and leave. He complied and asked the crowd to disperse.
From Miriu Kaggia and his party headed to Homabay where they were recieved by a crowd outside KPU offices.
The police acting on orders from above dispersed the crowd, and arrested Kaggia, Ochok, and drove them to Kisii. The two were subsequently sentenced to prison by Kisii magistrate James Nyarangi
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Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
Henry Rono one of the greatest runners to ever represent Kenya on the international athletic scene. Super athlete unfortunately he later on fell into misfortune and had to be bailed out financially through public fundraisers. He managed the near impossible feat of breaking four world records in 2 weeks.

Kenya boycotted the 1976 olympics in protest over apartheid that was before Rono came up. The one that affected him was the 1980 boycott of the Moscow Olympics because Russia (USSR) had invaded Afghanistan.

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Clemens

Elder Lister
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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.
Poolers vodka from amarios brands was my favourite, ulikuwa unalewa na plastic chupa ya 40 Bob.
 

Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
George Mukabi was among early Africans to record music in Kenya.

Some of his popular songs which still grace our air waves are "Singula Nakupenda" and "Mtoto si Nguo" which he composed but performed by his son.

His style of music was popular among urban Africans and played a great part in influencing urban musicians such as John Mwale.

However his illustrious musical career ended tragically in 1963, after he pursued his second wife who had broken his guitar, dragged her out of her parents' house and assaulted her.
Mukabi who had just returned from Nairobi where he had gone for music business, left his guitar in his second wife's house and went to have a rest in his first wife's house.
The younger wife thought Mukabi was going to give all the money he had brought from Nairobi to the the first wife, and out of jealousy took her husband's guitar and smashed it.
Mukabi heard the commotion and rushed to his second wife's house to find out what was happening. The lady upon realising what she had just done, took off to her parents' home as Mukabi gave chase.
Mukabi really cherished his guitar which he was gifted by an Englishman and there was no way he could let his second wife get away with her actions.
On arrival at his in-laws which was just around the corner, he passed his father in law who was basking in the sun and went straight to the house to look for his wife. When he failed to find her in the sitting room, he entered the bedroom where he found her hiding under her parents' bed.
He dragged her out and started beating her. The woman's father who was too old to fight, screamed for help from the villagers who were still in their shambas.
They arrived with panga's, jembes and rungus and straightaway descended on Mukabi. Despite sustaining deep cuts, Mukabi still managed to cross River Yala as he tried to save his life . However, he collapsed just some distance from the banks.
The villagers who were still in hot pursuit caught up with him and finished him off by cutting him into pieces.
They then placed the body parts on a mkokoteni and took them to Kakamega Hospital Motuary
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Eng'iti

Elder Lister
Power saw ilimaliza hii
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They used to crash dry cell carbons and use a string to make lines on the wood before saw comes in. They would then whistle in line with the sound of saw against wood
Kina @matunda walikua wanapasulia mzae mbao kwa kichaka. I remember i used to deliver 15ltrs of uji at different times of the day.
Na hapo washa kunywa ingine kejani. They used to eat like @Kimakia endlessly
 

Eng'iti

Elder Lister
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
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Manana

Lister
George Mukabi was among early Africans to record music in Kenya.

Some of his popular songs which still grace our air waves are "Singula Nakupenda" and "Mtoto si Nguo" which he composed but performed by his son.

His style of music was popular among urban Africans and played a great part in influencing urban musicians such as John Mwale.

However his illustrious musical career ended tragically in 1963, after he pursued his second wife who had broken his guitar, dragged her out of her parents' house and assaulted her.
Mukabi who had just returned from Nairobi where he had gone for music business, left his guitar in his second wife's house and went to have a rest in his first wife's house.
The younger wife thought Mukabi was going to give all the money he had brought from Nairobi to the the first wife, and out of jealousy took her husband's guitar and smashed it.
Mukabi heard the commotion and rushed to his second wife's house to find out what was happening. The lady upon realising what she had just done, took off to her parents' home as Mukabi gave chase.
Mukabi really cherished his guitar which he was gifted by an Englishman and there was no way he could let his second wife get away with her actions.
On arrival at his in-laws which was just around the corner, he passed his father in law who was basking in the sun and went straight to the house to look for his wife. When he failed to find her in the sitting room, he entered the bedroom where he found her hiding under her parents' bed.
He dragged her out and started beating her. The woman's father who was too old to fight, screamed for help from the villagers who were still in their shambas.
They arrived with panga's, jembes and rungus and straightaway descended on Mukabi. Despite sustaining deep cuts, Mukabi still managed to cross River Yala as he tried to save his life . However, he collapsed just some distance from the banks.
The villagers who were still in hot pursuit caught up with him and finished him off by cutting him into pieces.
They then placed the body parts on a mkokoteni and took them to Kakamega Hospital Motuary
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WTF did I just read. How tragic
 
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