Sister Lucy lazima ni shosho saa hii.
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You may have encountered George Padmore Road in Kilimani area, Nairobi. This is the man after whom it is named.
While in Britain, Jomo Kenyatta befriended an Afro-Caribbean Marxist, George Padmore, who was working for the Soviet-run Comintern. Over time, he became Padmore’s protégé. In late 1932, he joined Padmore in Germany. Before the end of the year, the duo relocated to Moscow, where Kenyattastudied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. There he was taught a range of subjects, including arithmetic, geography, natural science, and political economy, as well as Marxist-Leninist doctrine and the history of the Marxist-Leninist movement. Many Africans and members of the African diaspora were attracted to the institution because it offered free education and the opportunity to study in an environment where they were treated with dignity, free from the institutionalised racism present in the U.S. and British Empire. He was among those students who complained about the food, accommodation, and poor quality of English instruction. There is no evidence that he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and one of his fellow students later characterised him as “the biggest reactionary I have ever met.”
During his time in the Soviet Union, Kenyatta also visited Siberia, probably as part of an official guided tour. The emergence of the Nazi administration in Germany shifted political allegiances in Europe, as the Soviet Union sought to establish formal alliances with France and Czechoslovakia, thereby reducing its support for the movement against British and French colonial rule in Africa. As a result, Comintern disbanded the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, to which both Padmore and Kenyatta were affiliated. Padmore resigned from the Soviet Communist Party in protest, and was subsequently vilified in the Soviet press. Both Padmore and Kenyatta left the Soviet Union, with the latter returning to London in August 1933. The British authorities were highly suspicious of Kenyatta’s time in the Soviet Union, suspecting that he was a Marxist-Leninist, and following his return the MI5 intelligence service intercepted and read all of his mail.
Kenyatta had continued writing articles, in which he reflected Padmore’s influence. Between 1931 and 1937 he wrote several articles for the Negro Worker and joined the newspaper’s editorial board in 1933. He also produced an article for a November 1933 issue of Labour Monthly, and in May 1934 had a letter published in The Manchester Guardian. He also wrote the entry on Kenya for Negro, an anthology edited by Nancy Cunard and published in 1934. In these, he took a more extreme position than he had in the past, calling for complete self-rule in Kenya. In doing so he was virtually alone among political Kenyans, with figures like Thuku and Jesse Kariuki being far less radical in their demands. The pro-independence sentiments that he was able to express in Britain would not have been permitted in Kenya itself.
source: mytribute.life
hii ilikuwa na A/C?
Ishara ya kujipa shugli coz ninja mwenzako ako busy kufikisha threshold.
@Meria Mata ako ndaaaaaani yake, tafuta malazi kwengineko 
What goes round comes around. My cousin is doing good business selling these watches to students pale KU na JKUAT…
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Grace Akinyi (centre) the wife of Olympic boxing gold medallist Robert Wangila with daughter.
In July 1994, news broke that Kenya Olympic gold medalist, boxer Robert Wangila, was in a critical condition after a bout in Houston, Texas.
Wangila, the first African to win a boxing Olympic gold medal, had apparently collapsed in his dressing room after a fight with David Gonzalez at the Alladin Hotel. Wangila never recovered.
A national hero who had turned to professional boxing, Wangila’s death sparked a big feud after two men emerged claiming to be his father. As doubts about Wangila’s paternity continued, it also emerged that he had converted to Islam. This created more confusion.
Relatives nearly came to blows as the body arrived and it was diverted from passing through Nairobi’s Jericho Estate and taken to Lee Funeral Home.
One of the “fathers”, Karani Angila, wanted Wangila to be buried on his Kisii plot. Another group claimed that Wangila’s father was the late Daudi Magero of Bunjwang’a village in Busia, while John Mabeche of Kisii, who married Wangila’s mother, claimed to be his real father. Another man, Karani Kanyimbo, also claimed to have married Wangila’s mother when he was born. Wangila’s mother, Eunice Moraa Mabeche, later said Kanyimbo was his father.
Thus, the controversy centred on faith and two clans.
Wangila had left a will, saying that he should be buried in accordance with Muslim rites and according to the wishes of his wife. The executor of the will was Dr Willy Mutunga, then chairman of the Law Society of Kenya.
The Muslims wanted Wangila interred at the Kariakor cemetery. Wangila’s Ababukaki clan led by prominent cardiologist, Prof Hilary Ojiambo, told the court that he may be cursed, dethroned, and ostracised if Wangila was buried outside Busia.
After three months of hearing, Mr Justice Andrew Hayanga respected Wangila’s will and gave the Muslims the go-ahead to bury the body. The ceremony was boycotted by the Busia and Kisii claimants.
source: www.nation.co.ke
sijanyita hii
asking for myself and 1000 others
kaa imetoa wapi, from machakos airport to thika used to take 4 hrs
Mama ya Wangila alikuwa kunguru sana.
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Marciana Adungosi, the 101-year old mother of Titus ‘Tito’ Adungosi, the student leader who died in prison. The then government of President Moi even interfered with the burial arrangements forcing the family to go against the customs of the Teso community.
It was in 1982 after the attempted coup when the government of KANU went round brutally plucking campus students from their classes and hostels and dumping them in Kamiti. Kamiti maximum prison cell block D turned to be a revolutionary campus. Sixty university students (Mwakdua wa Mwachofi, Ken Sagala, Evans Vitisia, dongo Ogony, Onyango CA, Jeff Mwangi Kwirikia, David Murathe, Ciira Wabere, Kirimaina, Ongele Opala, Richard Momoima Onyonka, Philip Murgor , Wahinya Boore , Thomas Mutus, JJ Ouma , Kibisu Kabatesi , Njuguna Mutonya, Francis Kinyua, Omondi Oludhe among many others) were in the Kamiti prison Block D which gained the name a “revolutionary campus”
The Students Organisation of Nairobi University, Sonu, was established in 1982 as a central body representing University of Nairobi students. The first chairman was Tito Adungosi, an undergraduate with acclaimed oratory skills.
Adungosi was outspoken and several viewed him as radical, so he was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for sedition on September 24, 1982, soon after the failed military coup of August 1. Adungosi died in prison under mysterious circumstances on December 27, 1988.
Marciliana Adungosi, 102, died on June 16, 2013.
sources: http://abeingo.com/, kenyayote.com andwww.theeastafrican.co.ke
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The late John Mburu who was PC of Western
The death of John Mburu, a former provincial commissioner, would have gone unnoticed had his three wives agreed on where to bury him.
Mburu died on October 27, 1981, and while his first wife, Carmelina, wanted him to be buried in Gaichanjiru, Murang’a, his two other wives — Mary Nduta and Hellen Omoka — favoured the 90-acre Mbaruk farm near Nakuru.
Two suits were filed in court — one by Carmelina against Nduta and Omoka, and another by Nduta against Carmelina and Mburu’s brother, Taddeo Mwaura, a former Kandara MP.
Mburu had married Carmelina in 1955, but their relationship had been strained because they did not have a child. When the couple left the country for Oxford, where Mburu was studying, he started a relationship with one Ms Nathalina Wakiuru. As it emerged during the case, Mburu later married Wakiuru’s younger sister, Nduta, as wife number two.
While Carmelina was not opposed to Mburu taking another wife provided there was “a mutual agreement”, she remained bitter with Wakiuru for taking off with him at Oxford. “It was very cold there and I was bitter because she used to take my husband away.”
This had strained the relationship. In 1963, the two stopped living together and Mburu married Wakiuru’s sister, Nduta, the following year. The two had six children.
Nduta and Mburu lived in Loresho, Nairobi, while Carmelina retreated to Mombasa, where she worked as a cateress at the Coast General Hospital.
Mburu had a 23-acre farm in Murang’a. He had also purchased 90 acres in Mbaruk in 1965, which Nduta regarded as their matrimonial home.
It was not until October 7, 1981, after Mburu was admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital, that the two women met for the first time. His death 20 days later saw Nduta schedule the burial for Mbaruk. Carmelina, who had been away for 18 years, was ignored.
In his ruling, Mr Justice J.M Gachuhi ordered that Mburu be buried in a separate Murang’a farm, which the clan had identified, next to his father’s grave. Justice Gachuhi warned the widows that none of them had won the case, and observed that there was a succession element in the dispute. All the three widows attended the burial.
source: www.nation.co.ke
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1962, Minister of Commerce and Communication, Masinde Murilo presides over the renaming of the Nairobi Aerodrome to Wilson airport in honour of Florence Kerr Wilson who operated Wilson airways. She attended the event and passed away 6 years later at her home in Karen.
nimetafuta hii picha kishenzi,tulikua tunaiita come on come on…from the operation movement of the hand:D:D:D:D:D:D
Just sad. How many brilliant minds have we lost to political murders? Arrrrrrrgh
Good Old Majengo
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can someone update us vile kuko leo
mtu anatombewa bibi na asikasirike
My cousin…blame the morphology of the extremities of my hands,wacha niseme tu fingers!
National Museums of Kenya main entrance in 1990
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