History buffs should read this amazing twitter thread on the '82 coup

[this is hard]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">1/ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HistoryKeThread?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#HistoryKeThread</a> How The 1982 Coup Plot Was Crushed <a href="https://t.co/F6vEdmIIxQ">pic.twitter.com/F6vEdmIIxQ</a></p>&mdash; HistoryKe (@HistoryKe) <a href="">November 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Prometheus]

Just from reading it. Made me look for that Kamaru song, Safari ya Japan. Anyone know where I can get it?

 

[this is hard]

Just from reading it. Made me look for that Kamaru song, Safari ya Japan. Anyone know where I can get it?

This was one awesome read, i wish it dint end.
Nothing on youtube?

 

[Prometheus]

This was one awesome read, i wish it dint end.
Nothing on youtube?

I went there but got some old kuyo songs. Stuck to listening to Les Wanyika

 

[1776]

my fren, how do i followthe story? it seems jumbled. i'm seeing 1/32, 1/21, 3/3.... no sequence. saidia since i'm a history buff the worstest!

 

[this is hard]

my fren, how do i followthe story? it seems jumbled. i'm seeing 1/32, 1/21, 3/3.... no sequence. saidia since i'm a history buff the worstest!

Just click on the twitter thingy ive posted and then just follow the thread, its numbered from 1 to a hundred and something

 

[upepo]

Wachaneni na twitter.Mimi hapa nilikuwa combatant kamili.Viatu mpya zilikuwa zinatupwa kwa shimo ya takataka lakini hakuna mtu anashugulika.

 

[this is hard]

Wachaneni na twitter.Mimi hapa nilikuwa combatant kamili.Viatu mpya zilikuwa zinatupwa kwa shimo ya takataka lakini hakuna mtu anashugulika.

Wewe ulikuwa side gani? haikosi ulikuwa part of Air force

 

[Luther12]

my fren, how do i followthe story? it seems jumbled. i'm seeing 1/32, 1/21, 3/3.... no sequence. saidia since i'm a history buff the worstest!

 

[1776]

Just click on the twitter thingy ive posted and then just follow the thread, its numbered from 1 to a hundred and something

thanks. done. read. what a read!!

 

[this is hard]

thanks. done. read. what a read!!

My best part was the one about that rebel thinking statehouse and gsu hq has been bombed

 

[1776]

My best part was the one about that rebel thinking statehouse and gsu hq has been bombed

"i will shoot you..." akaona tu afungue gate that @Amused me

 

[emali]

Sisi hatuko twitter hii tutaona aje?

 

[Luther12]

Sisi hatuko twitter hii tutaona aje?

You don’t need to be logged in.

 

[mayekeke]

Sisi hatuko twitter hii tutaona aje?

I got you...

 

[emali]

I got you...

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Asanta sana braza.. mimi hiyo twirra ilinilemea

 

[mayekeke]

35 years of Ojingaism and counting....

 

[Yunomi]

The attempted coup hardened President Moi and he steered Kenya through some turbulent times in Africa when country after country were being fell by coups. What he didn't have in sophistication he made up in effort. President Moi was a hard worker and that helped keep us together.

 

[vuja de]

@HistoryKe has the best Twitter account.

 

[phantom]

Wah. Gripping.
But I've always wondered what could have been if this was not a mainly dim eye effort. What if the shineys were more involved? Would this story be the same?