TBT

Great Lingala guitarists as suggested by @Wu Tang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I6zFfOmvFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3syleBKqfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYR_z2J4g3s

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Waiyaki wa Hinga; an Agikuyu leader and Kenyan anti-colonial leader who was chief of Dagoretti. Waiyaki signed a treaty with Frederick Lugard of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC). However, having been subject to considerable “harassment” by the British, Waiyaki burnt down Lugard’s fort in 1890. Waiyaki was finally captured two years later and killed and buried upside down near Kibwezi.

Waiyaki Way in Westlands, Nairobi was the route Chief Waiyaki wa Hinga used as he was escorted, chained and bruised, to Kibwezi. This was after he was found guilty and order issued that he be ‘deported’ from Dagoretti in August 1892.

Waiyaki’s sins comprised telling off Captain WP Purkiss, who had him sentenced in a makeshift Kabete courthouse, battered and ‘deported.’ Ironically, both Waiyaki and Purkiss died and were buried in the Scottish Mission in Kibwezi. Waiyaki’s family has petitioned for his remains to be traced so that he can be accorded a hero’s burial over 120 years after he was buried upside down. The formidable contribution of the Waiyakis in pre and post-independent Kenya cannot be gainsaid.

Tirus Munyua Waiyaki: Was the first African Chief Inspector of Police stationed at the Central Police Station besides serving among the few court interpreters in colonial Kenya. His children (see below) served in high public offices.

Dr Munyua Waiyaki: Was Foreign Affairs minister for five years to 1979, a position that earned him the nickname ‘Kissinger’ after US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. The 89-year-old former MP for Mathare (now Kasarani) is best remembered for ‘shuttle diplomacy’ to end apartheid in South Africa, where he attended Fort Hare University and stayed at the Iona Hostel with Zulu leader, Chief Mongosuthu Buthelezi.

Kimani Waiyaki: The London-trained lawyer was the first Town Clerk of Nairobi in 1964, despite the administrative challenges. This July, the 87-year-old sought a Sh280 million compensation for an unlawful 10-month detention by the Kenyatta regime in 1968.

Mugo Waiyaki: Was appointed puisne judge of the High Court by President Jomo Kenyatta in 1971.

Wambui Waiyaki Otieno: Was a firebrand feminist politician best remembered for her spirited court battle during the protracted landmark SM Otieno burial dispute that pitted her against her husbands’s Umira Kager clan in 1987. Wambui challenged social norms: She refused dowry payment before her nuptials in 1963 and got Kenyans yapping after marrying Peter Mbugua, who was more than 40 years her junior in 2003. She died aged 75 in 2011.

Gladwell Wathoni Otieno: Daughter of Wambui and alumnus of Massachusetts and Boston universities is the founding director of Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG).

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In a photograph from 1950, girls from Kenya’s Kipsigis tribe sing the song “Chemirocha’'.

The Kipsigis created a whole legend around this country singer, who was Jimmie Rodgers, the “father of country music.” They pronounced his name “Chemirocha.”

In 1950, Hugh Tracey, a British-born ethnomusicologist, travelled to Kapkatet, Kenya, to record the native songs of the Kipsigis, a pastoral tribe based in the western highlands of the Rift Valley. Tracey had been studying African music since 1921, when he followed his older brother, Leonard, from Devonshire to Zimbabwe—then Southern Rhodesia—to help farm tobacco, on land that Leonard had been allotted by the British government following his service in the First World War. In 1929, Tracey took fourteen local African men to a recording session in Johannesburg, five hundred miles to the south. The records they made there were, in Tracey’s words, “the first items of indigenous Rhodesian music to be recorded and published.”

In 1950, on his trip through the Rift Valley, Tracey collected three vernacular songs about a creature called Chemirocha, a mystical half-man, half-antelope figure, beloved by the Kipsigis for his lunatic singing and dancing. The most transfixing of the three sides, “Chemirocha III” is credited to “Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls,” and was described by Tracey as “humorous” in his notes, although the record sounds, to me, like an emanation from some heaven or another.

You can listen to the song listen on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8BJLveduA

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Kisii man _1912

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two Kikuyu dancers wearing traditional dress and headgear IN 1912

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Indian reinforcements being transported to Kilwa in German East Africa (Tanganyika) to support military operations there, October 1917 during WW1.

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Meria Maradona showing off his skills in this 1987 pic.
Spot musubcounty @blackguards wakameat mwenyewe

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Your first taste

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Pele in Kenya C 1978

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Ever wondered how Masaais maintain such lean physiques?

The Maasai traditional diet consists almost entirely of milk, meat, and blood. Two thirds of their calories come from fat, and they consume 600 - 2000 mg of cholesterol a day. To put that number in perspective, the American Heart Association recommends consuming under 300 mg of cholesterol a day.__ In spite of a high fat, high cholesterol diet, the Maasai have low rates of diseases typically associated with such diets.__ They tend to have low blood pressure, their overall cholesterol levels are low, they have low incidences of cholesterol gallstones, as well as low rates of coronary artery diseases such as atherosclerosis.

Raw beef is also consumed, but much more fascinating is the tradition of drinking raw blood, cooked blood, and blood-milk mixtures.

Blood is obtained by nicking the jugular artery of a cow precisely, allowing for blood-letting that doesn’t kill the animal. Mixed blood and milk is used as a ritual drink in special celebrations, or given to the sick.

Of course blood and milk aren’t the only things Maasai eat; the diet has always been supplemented with tubers, honey, and foraged plants that are most often used in soups and stews. More recently, Maasai have supplemented their diet with grains and maize-meal (and of course many modern Maasai live an urban lifestyle, with the more varied diet that entails). They still play an important role in many Maasai meals, however; for example, ugali (a thick maize-based porridge that serves as a staple food throughout Tanzania) is generally served with milk in Maasai households.

In the summer of 1935 Dr. Weston A. Price visited the Maasai and reported that according to Dr. Anderson from the local government hospital in Kenya most tribes were disease-free. Many had not a single tooth attacked by dental caries nor a single malformed dental arch. In particular the Maasai had a very low 0.4% of bone caries. He attributed that to their diet consisting of (in order of volume) raw milk, raw blood, raw meat and some vegetables and fruits, although in many villages they do not eat any fruit or vegetables at all. He noted that when available every growing child and every pregnant or lactating woman would receive a daily ration of raw blood.

Soups are probably the most important use of plants for food by Maasai. Acacia nilotica is the most frequently used soup plant. The root or stem bark is boiled in water and the decoction drunk alone or added to soup. The Maasai are fond of taking this as a drug, and is known to make them energetic, aggressive and fearless. Maasai eat soup laced with bitter bark and roots containing cholesterol-lowering saponins; those urban Maasai who don’t have access to the bitter plants tend to develop heart disease.[93] Although consumed as snacks, fruits constitute a major part of the food ingested by children and women looking after cattle as well as morans in the wilderness.

The mixing of cattle blood, obtained by nicking the jugular vein, and milk is done to prepare a ritual drink for special celebrations and as nourishment for the sick. However, the inclusion of blood in the traditional diet is waning due to the reduction of livestock numbers. More recently, the Maasai have grown dependent on food produced in other areas such as maize meal, rice, potatoes, cabbage (known to the Maasai as goat leaves) etc. The Maasai who live near crop farmers have engaged in cultivation as their primary mode of subsistence. In these areas, plot sizes are generally not large enough to accommodate herds of animals; thus the Maasai are forced to farm.

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A couple from around Nairobi_ C. 1915

thanks swallow saliva for bringing back tbt

@Guru and mr idler

@Meria Mata tbt mwoto saidi.

Hao watoi wa Waiyaki walipewa kazi ili kuzuia resistance? Kiu-handshake hivi?

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did the blue part ever work

umechokoza nyuki

memories are made of this
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If your folks bought land in Karen during this time we need to be friends

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sisemi kitu
your dreams are varid

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