TBT Kamaru Edition

He was an institution and a walking library. A man who wrote over 1,000 songs, some yet to be recorded. Let’s celebrate his life and legacy. Thankfully, Kamaru continues to live through his music.
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This is the man whose 1969 hit track, Dari ya Mwarîmû (teacher’s darling), caused a storm in parliament and in the national teachers’ union, who threatened to go on strike. ‬

It took Mzee Kenyatta’s intercession to put the storm to rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=ZTtCjQxcDfg;list=RDZTtCjQxcDfg

his songs were full of advice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0re9PXK8oQ

and teachings

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

(asking about our trees and their uses)
mpaka leo miti ingine siijui.
RIP Legend

i dedicate kahiga karia kari weru to my sweetie nefmanyondo,wekea mimi hio musubcounty

inaitwa wendo wa cebe cebe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaEE44avKGk

MHSRIP… a true legend

This is a legend. I love his music to bits! Muhiki wa Mikosi, Ciira wa Mama Ciru & Gathoni an all time favourite. May he rest in eternal peace.

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@Mosa @Deorro @Kimakia hawakuona hii mbus ikibeba hapa jiji.
huko juu ilikua hakuna kusimama alafu shocks zilikua niza airbag, huneskia ata bump

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Tawfiq after numerous accidents changed their name to Takrim

Couch P ata hizi alipanda. (real phoseal)
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THE GOLDEN 60s…
When double decker buses rocked Nairobi…
This is Moi Avenue towards Kencom House. This area was vacant and was the official bus park at the time. Notice the National Archives and the Ambassedeur Hotel in the background

Jomo Kenyatta’s Cabinet after the 1974 Election?
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look how lean the cabinet was.

Princess Elizabeth of Toro - Uganda…

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‪October 12, 1952: Paul Ngei has his cuffs unshackled outside the Kapenguria court in which he alongside five others, viz. Jomo Kenyatta, Kung’u Karumba, Achieng Oneko, Bildad Kaggia and Fred Kubai faced trial for “managing Mau Mau”.‬
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Nilijua ziko but sikuziona juu then bado nilikuwa shule…Jiji niliingi vizuri 2003 nikienda campus.Nilipata DAF na IVECO za green zilikuwa zalipisha 10bob from Githurai to town stage ya jiani 5bob.

King’s African Rifles askaris hoist a captured Japanese flag in Seikphyu, Burma, 18th February 1945
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is it that walifunguka macho huko ama ni British empire ilikua yaanguka juu ya kufirisika?

original Nyayo mbus, do you remember the freeno ya hizo IVECO, ukiwa Githu ulikua waiskia ikiwa KU

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Contingent of KAR at the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902, photographed by John Benjamin Stone

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Askaris moving a field gun into position, 1914 (c).

Black soldiers from Britain’s African colonies bore the brunt of the fighting against the Germans in East Africa during World War One (1914-1918). The British lost over 10,000 men, two thirds from disease. German losses were about 2,000. The black peoples of East Africa, who served as soldiers and carriers, suffered far more. One recent estimate of black African casualties is 100,000 dead on both sides.

World War One, East Africa (1914-1918), 1914.

British troops and locals stand with two guns salvaged from the cruiser HMS ‘Pegasus’ that were mounted on ox-drawn carts. The ‘Pegasus’ had been sunk at anchor on 20 September 1914 in Zanzibar harbour by the German cruiser ‘Konigsberg’. Six of her guns were eventually salvaged and went on to be used in the East African land campaign.
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Jamia Mosque, Nairobi, Circa 1940

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Most of the Mũgithi and one man guitar songs are actually remixes of Kamarũ’s songs

exactly