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Njamba do you know the man named Gichwe? He has a home just west of Kwaregi primary school. I don’t know if he is still alive but he is one of those people who fought in WW2. He was always full of stories of how he fought in Burma. I am sure there are many like him but nobody recognizes them during the remembrance week. Which remends I watched Saving Private Ryan again last night on History channel and isn’t that a good movie or what, the lines are fabulous. Only now I realise Vin Diesel was in that movie, hadn’t seen him the first time I watched it. Why I didn’t even know that Private Ryan was played by Matt Damon.

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Stocko,
Can you ask your mum to tell gichwe to sell her the Panga (Machete)/sword he brought home from Burma. Was Gichwe a hired Mercernary? If he was I would like to get the whole story on camera. It is time you dispactched your Son to go do research over there and record it on tape I will pay him for it. This should be an academic pursuit for him too. I was thinking it is about time we write the history of our gichagi. There is a lot of info there that can be of future reference to our descendants.
My mum’s uncle died is still missing in action he never returned from Burma. The family believes he died there and British army buried him there like a dog.

I hate the British colonialists with all my heart they treated our people like dogs. Anyway There is a man in Githirioni who son was born retarded son due to the effects of gun powder. I am the son gets medical help from the british government even today.
It is better to be right and march to hell than to be wrong and march to heaven with a bunch of fools – Dr Clarke To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

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The thing is Njamba I don’t know Gichwe (Ithe wa Njau) is still alive. He used to go to Independent church there at the shopping centre with both his wives on each side every Sunday. If you met him he will stop to speak in glowing terms about both his wives and how much he loved them. Then he would go on and on about his WW2 times
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I have not heard of his passing he is still alive as far as I know. We are family, his daughter Wangui is married to my uncle.
It is better to be right and march to hell than to be wrong and march to heaven with a bunch of fools – Dr Clarke To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

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My grandfather fought in WWII and according to my Dad, the Bama market in Nai was started by these soldiers when they got back. Their service in the war opened their eyes to entreprenurial possibilities and they started small businesses hapo.

Unfortunately I think they also got targeted by the colonial gova as being behind the organization of Mau Mau…
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Notable servicemen, check number 11

1.Idi Amin
2.Roald Dahl
3.General Sir George Giffard
4.Captain Tony Hargrave-Smith
5.David Gordon Hines, later in East African Colonial Service
6.Waruhiu Itote (“General China”)
7.Nigel Gray Leakey
8.P. J. Marshall – historian of the British empire in the eighteenth century
9.Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell – Mad Mitch
10.Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
11.Hussein Onyango Obama – U.S. President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather
12.Lieutenant-Colonel Roy Stockwell
Eric Wilson VC
from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King’s_African_Rifles
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Kwani all Africans served in Burma? My grandpa also served in Burma.

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Kwani all Africans served in Burma? My grandpa also served in Burma.

the polulation of east africa was about 10 million at the time so if 289,000 mercenaries were hired/forced to fight for british go figure why the number is high
It is better to be right and march to hell than to be wrong and march to heaven with a bunch of fools – Dr Clarke To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

W.e E. B. Du Bois quotes

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My dad was among the KAR battalions roaming the broad swathe of eastern and southern Africa to prop up the Allied forces. He returned home to fend for himself, his military garments neatly tucked and locked away never to be seen to date. All they bequeathed him was vocational training and the tools of his trade. He never talked about his military experience, except for his intimate knowledge of Nyasaland and Rhodesia (Northern – Zambia and Southern – Zimbabwe). None of us were ever to contemplate joining the armed forces, if he had something to say about it.

Our Independence government paid lip service to these people; never recognized or followed up on their welfare.
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Njamba do you know the man named Gichwe? He has a home just west of Kwaregi primary school. I don’t know if he is still alive but he is one of those people who fought in WW2. He was always full of stories of how he fought in Burma. I am sure there are many like him but nobody recognizes them during the remembrance week.

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can someone tell what it is with Kisii’s and Lynching old women

What is happening in Kisii area is the height of primitivy in Kenya. After watching the graphic video of old women being lynched. I thought the Kisii community would do some soul searching and decide that they had no right in taking anyone life in pretence of witch hunting. Just last week another old lady was lynched after being accussed of bewitching some local leader who died. How did these primitives decide that the woman caused the death of their Leader.
Meanwhile the whole Kisii Leadership politicians, church leaders, and civil societyhave not condemned these killings.
I would urger the internal security minister to launch a security operation in the area where the lynching happened and make sure that anyone involved is charged with murder. Time for the government to stamp its authority on these primitives.

Kenyan White aristrocrat who shoots africans for fun

Now that Chomodely is out is there a lawyer out there who can file a civil suit on Njoya’s family behalf. The justice system in Kenya only Jailed this man for five months for killing Njoya and he was set free by attorney general on earlier murder of an African Black neighbor. It is time to bankrupt the Lord Dalmere farm and send this racist murderer back to Europe where his kind belongs

Njenga – The nationalist, the cult leader, and Scholar

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he Kenya National Youth Alliance: An Apology
The history of nations is written with the bloody point of a sword; the road to nationhood is paved with the corpses of heroes; the rivers of sovereignty, emancipation, social justice and equity burst their banks with the blood of believers. Our ancestors were martyred that we might possess this land. The war they fought, the deeds they signed, the alliances they made, all these brought us to that morning of December 12th 1963. Uhuru! And on December 12th 1964, the Republic of Kenya was realised. Independent, free, sovereign

Source: Kenya Imagine;Njoroge Matathia

My thoughts on the “reported Draft Consistution”

I would propose that the following FINE tuning be done during the retreat next week
PM be Directly elected
President post be scrapped all together ( or become a PURELY ceremonial Post)
Pm must command the biggest number of Mps in Parliament

PM can be impeached by 2/3 of MPS

Creation of a Senate that will check the excesses of Parliament or Executive

All others Proposals Makes sense

But we DO NOT Need two centers of power in Kenya
Kibaki and Raila Marriage has shown how dangerous this is

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/- … index.html

Irrational Greed Is NOT good

Like that of this whole PHD who could not do simple research and ensure that he was not scammed and almost killed by Conkary 419 (nigerian ran Fraud) scam. I still do not understand how kenyans get caught up in these silly investments scams and ponzi schemes. THis man son who is in USA should be rashed on his buttocks nine times for endangering his father’s life with bullshit
These scammers who are running multi billion dollars scamming operations in West Africa are dangerous merciless criminals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8315027.stm

GLobal warming will millions if not thousands of Kenyans

While the Rich countries are using corn to make ethanol. In kenya my home country thousands have died in the last fews years from famine. The weather in kenya have become unpredictable and erratic. It rains when it is not supposed to eg it will rain during harvest when farmers need sun to dry their cereals (maize, beans, millet, wheat etc) and it is dry during planting season. Right now heavy flooding is being exprienced in all part of the country and hopefully this will alleviated the suffering
Watch the clip below to see how the Wretched of the earth live

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/10/13/hilsum.kenya.drought.itn

Time for Obama to Leave middle East and focus his efforts

In saving lifes in Sudan and Zaire. So Far 4.3 million Africans have died in Genocides in sudan and congo while the world Cheers genocide perpertators along.
obama should leave republicans to finish the Middle East nation building project and concentrate on earning his Nobel credentials by stopping and arresting Genociders in Zaire and Sudan.

Otherwise I am more convinced that Afghanistan and Iraq wars are just about American Greed for Oil

Nkunda and Omar Bashir should be place on Pentagon Deck Of cards and taken out

Obama must stop appeasing Genocide Perperators
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Energy Cost in Kenya should come down in a decade

With Discovery of Coal in Mui basin in Eastern province and the possibility of striking oil in North Eastern kenya and on going efforts by GOK to diversify the energy production via Green technology I predict that the price of energy will come down considerably in a decade given that the governance situation continues to improve.

kenya strikes Oil in Isiolo

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/674498/-/uo1njh/-/index.html

Now you will see madness in kenya. The violatile Region of isiolo will become even more unstable. I hope this discovery is delayed for another 10 years Kenya is not ready for any FREE money like petrol dollars

China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s Xie Wensheng (right), former Chinese envoy Zheng Ming and Education Minister Sam Ongeri at Isiolo Stadium recently. The firm supported various community projects. Photo/FILE

Kenya is smelling petrodollars. The EastAfrican can authoritatively report that in two weeks, the country is expecting to join the league of oil producers on the continent.

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International firms step up search for oil and gas reserves in Kenya
Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi was bubbling with optimism when he told this newspaper on Thursday, “In a matter of days, we could be celebrating. God willing, I shall be announcing a historical discovery at the end of the month.”

Christmas will indeed come early should the drilling of a five-kilometre deep well in Isiolo by a Chinese firm, set to begin next week on October 28, strike oil.

And this time around, unlike as with past attempts that ended in disappointment after sinking billions into empty wells, Mr Murungi insisted, “We have done our homework and all indications are that Kenya will join Uganda in celebrating the status of a new oil producer.

“We can’t tell the size of the deposits we have yet, and there is a remote possibility that they may not be sufficient to qualify for commercial drilling, but that too will be known at the end of the month,” he said.

He added that he was convinced the seismic trials undertaken over the past two years are not lying.

Kenya’s optimism is informed by the geographical location of the prospective deposits — “not too far” from oil-rich Southern Sudan, whose deposits, according to the Ministry of Energy, extend into the neighbouring areas of Kenya, and also feed Uganda’s newly discovered deposits, which are found even under Lake Victoria.

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation will start drilling for oil at Block 9, Bogal 1-1, near Isiolo in northern Kenya next week.

The company is expected to spend up to $20 million to drill the Bogal 1-1 well.

Over the past three years, the company has invested about $15 million to gather data and analyse it.

“The Anza basin well will be the deepest ever drilled in Kenya,” Mr Murungi said.

The company is also licensed to explore oil deposits in the Lamu basin.