TBT 20th July

TBT today starts with this great song from Ray Parker Jr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNWyBXBC0E

we used to call him Ray Pussy and he also gave us that hairstyle
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yaani unaketi kwa kinyozi unamwambia nyoa Ray Parker.
this was followed by BOX
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and then came jordan, kunyoa kipara which was associated with being from jail suddenly became popular

Juha Kankkunen (The Flying Finn) Toyota Celica twin cam turbo_1985 Safari Rally
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Former president Moi, Saitoti and Dr Ouko are greeted at JKIA, Feb 4 1990

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For KCr 50, name the dance?

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C. 1990
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Sadler Street(now Koinange Street), Nairobi_1940s
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looks like a scene from the wild wild west
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sante sana Kirwa kwa kuchangia TBT lakini caption ni muhimu sana ili watu welewe hio mbisha.

mwomboko.

leta Kcr sasa ES

1

sawa boss
confirm receipt

Confirmesheni…50 Kcr Recieved:)…sande sana

Nairobi_1940s
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hapa ni wapi?
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Torrs Hotel next to New Stanley Hotel under construction Nairobi / Kenya_ 1920s
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1945 - VE Day Parade in Nairobi
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VE hapa inamaanisha nini?

Richard Meinertzhagen with a Kori bustard in Nairobi (1915).

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist. He had a decorated military career spanning Africa, where he was credited with murdering Koitalel arap Samoei the Nandi Orkoiyot and creating and executing the infamous Haversack Ruse.

To end the resistance, the British Col. Richard Meinertzhagen invited Koitalel to negotiate a truce. The peace meeting was to be held at 11:00AM on October 19, 1905. Suspecting that he would be killed as his father Kimnyole had feared, Samoei instructed the British Colonel to come with five companions to meet him at Ketbarak (present day Nandi Bears Club). Samoei was to come with five foretellers.

Contrary to the agreement, Meinhertzhagen marched from the fort at Kaptumo with 80 armed men, 75 of whom hid near the venue of the meeting. It is reported that when Koitalel stretched his hand to shake Meinhertzhagen’s, the British Colonel shot him at point blank range thus killing him and effectively ending the Nandi Resistance.

Lacking the desire to make a career in merchant banking, Meinertzhagen took examinations for a commission in the British Army, and after training at Aldershot was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 18 January 1899. He was sent to India to join a battalion of his regiment.[10] Other than routine regimental soldiering, he participated in big-game hunting, was promoted, sent on sick leave to England, and after recovery posted to the relocated battalion at Mandalay in Burma. He was promoted Lieutenant on 8 February 1900. He then started his “zealous campaign” for a transfer to Africa, and in April 1902 was seconded for service with the Foreign Office,[11] who attached him to the 3rd (East African) Battalion of the King’s African Rifles. The following month he finally arrived at Mombasa in British East Africa.

Meinertzhagen was assigned as a staff officer with the King’s African Rifles (KAR). Again he participated in big-game hunting, but “regarded himself as scientist-explorer first, and only incidentally as a soldier.” His maps, landscape and wildlife drawings proved him an artist of exceptional talent. In 1903 he was delegated to conduct a wild animal census in the Serengeti and Athi plains.

During Meinertzhagen’s assignment to Africa, frequent native “risings and rebellions” occurred. By 1903 KAR’s retaliatory ventures focused on confiscation of livestock, a highly effective form of punishment, and “the KAR had become accomplished cattle-rustlers.” One such punitive expedition was commanded by a Captain F.A. Dickinson of the 3rd KAR with participation by Meinertzhagen, where more than 11,000 stock were captured at the cost of 3 men killed and 33 wounded. The body count on the African side was estimated at 1,500 from the Kikuyu and Embu tribes
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@Miss Finest Wine you might wanna see this

samburu Mum with her very cute baby!
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Mlolongo elections_1988

The 1988 elections were the most scandalous ever conducted in Kenya, sending to Parliament a large number of people who were never actually elected.

On August 20, 1986, Kanu delegates made a resolution that would scandalise elections for decades to come. The decision to conduct primaries by having voters queue behind the image of their favoured candidates – which was known as queue voting – set the stage for massive rigging. Voting malpractices had been witnessed in other elections but the decision made it possible to cheat on a scale never witnessed before.

The thrust of the argument was that a good election should never reveal who one voted for. But under the queue system, people holding sensitive positions such as the police, party officials and even church leaders would be scared of lining up and revealing whose side they were on.

There were no records on the number of people who queued behind a candidates photograph. How then, could one file an appeal? Under Kanu rules, officials were required to count people in the queue with “an audible voice”. Some did, others did not. It later emerged that officials blatantly declared winners of their choice, regardless of the length of the queue. And then, there was one of the most controversial rules: anyone who garnered more than 70 per cent of the “votes” was declared elected unopposed.

Among those who lost in the elections were giants like Vice President Mwai Kibaki, who was so incensed that he called a press conference at night and declared: “Even rigging requires some intelligence.” He was relieved of his vice presidency position in a reshuffle the same year and named to the Health portfolio. Others locked out were Martin Shikuku, Charles Rubia and Kimani wa Nyoike. Shikuku was a sharp government critic who had spoken strongly against official corruption.
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This photo is in the US Library of the Congress and is captioned ‘Member of a Royal Family’. The photo was taken in Kenya in 1904. Anyone with an idea who they are?
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CC: @muria.mboco

Luo men_Kisumu_1904
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At a conference in Kikuyu in 1913, British missionaries from the Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches agreed to a Scheme of Federation to help them compete with non-Christian groups in Africa and to avoid transplanting the “unhappy divisions” among the churches of Britain to the mission field. The conference gave rise to a bitter controversy within the Anglican Church. Frank Weston, bishop of Zanzibar (present-day Tanzania), objected to federation with the other churches. He accused the leading Anglicans involved in the conference, William George Peel, bishop of Mombasa, and J.J. Willis, bishop of Uganda, of holding heretical views on church authority and other matters. The controversy was referred to the 1914 Central Consultative Body of the Lambeth Conference, the decennial assembly of Anglican bishops. Kikuyu is the ruling by Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury, on the controversy. Davidson ruled that the bishops should not be tried for heresy. The statement is from a bound compilation of ten documents relating to the early history of the Anglican Church in Uganda in the library of Uganda Christian University at Mukono, near Kampala. The university was founded in 1997 by the Anglican Church of Uganda and incorporates Bishop Tucker Theological College, founded in 1913
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